Suggest a change from Druid to Assistant

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 7 19:43:43 EST 2010


Mike--

Thank you for clearly proposing a sensible change in terminology.

a Big +1 from me.

David

--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Suggest a change from Druid to Assistant
> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 12:41 PM
> On Thursday January 7 2010 16:01:24
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk>
> writes:
> > > I would like to suggest a change from the word
> Druid to Assistant as
> > > specified in the Gnome HIG Human Interface
> Guidelines 2.2 guidelines.
> > > This has been mentioned in bug 602051.  As I
> said there I've nothing
> > > against Druids, being a Celt myself, but I think
> in order to help gain
> > > acceptance to a wider user base then adopting a
> standard terminology
> > > may make a small difference.
> > 
> > Are you suggestion word/documentation changes? 
> Or actually changing
> > from GnomeDruid to GtkAssistant?  The former is
> possible sooner, the
> > latter will need to wait until after we branch 2.4
> (once 2.4 is ready)
> > because GtkAssistant wasn't introduced into a recent
> Gtk release, too
> > recent for our current dependency requirements.
> > 
> I was merely suggesting word/documentation changes rather
> that a whole change 
> of methodology.  Because anything that encourages or
> eases a transition to 
> good open source software should be a good thing.  I
> think that most users 
> really don't care about any underlying ethos as long as it
> works and has a 
> small(ish) learning curve so maybe using familiar terms
> would help the 
> transition.
> 
> Mike
>   
> 
> 
> 
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