[Bug 1009686] Re: Change window title from "Software Updater" to...anything else?

[Arthur Tan]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
> Calling a window a "Manager" is almost always a symptom of being
> indirect. Back in the dark days of Mozilla, pre-Firefox, it had so many
> Managers -- "Bookmarks Manager", "Certificate Manager", "Cookie
> Manager", "Form Manager", "Password Manager", "Profile Manager", and so
> on -- that one of the developers once parodied it by implementing a
> "Manager Manager" to launch them all. Their modern-day Firefox
> equivalents are mostly more straightforward: for example "Bookmarks",
> "Cookies", and "Saved Passwords".

Simplification is good. And to your credit, "updater" is not without
precedent, e.g.

https://ninite.com/updater/
http://www.winzip.com/driver-updater.htm

But if we follow Mozilla's lead, why don't we just call it "Updates" ?

Branching out a little bit...perhaps one day, (I hope), Software
Updater will be merged in Software Center and we won't even need to
think about these things.

Happy holidays!

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to update-manager in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009686

Title:
  Change window title from "Software Updater" to...anything else?

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  In 12.10, "Update Manager" is now being called "Software Updater."

  http://iloveubuntu.net/update-manager-renamed-software-updater-
  ubuntu-1210

  There's also some debate whether "Do you want to install it now?"
  should be "Do you want to install them now?"

  IMHO, we should just remove the second sentence altogether. The dialog
  should just be, "Updated software is available."

  (1) Can we change the name of the window title from "Software Updater" to "Software Updates" ... [or something else]
  (2) Can we drop the second sentence in the dialog box.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1009686/+subscriptions