Suggest a change from Druid to Assistant

[Derek Atkins]

Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk> writes:

> 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.

Fair enough.

I'm happy with wording changes provided we're not in String Freeze.

> Mike

-derek

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