ksysguard: Renaming of menu option "Renice Process"

Yuriy Kozlov yuriy.kozlov at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 16:09:37 GMT 2010


On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:11 AM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 Jan 2010 11:34:40 Tomas Gustavsson wrote:
>> A couple of days ago I took Kubuntu (Lucid Lynx) out for a spin and played
>> around with the preinstalled software. There I found that when you right
>> click on a process in ksysguard you have this rather fuzzy option called
>> "Renice process". For many of us we know what this means but to a user who
>> is new to Linux (and KDE) it wouldn't mean that much to him/her.
>>
>> So for usability reasons I argue that it would be a better choice to rename
>> the option "Renice process" to "Change process priority" or just "Change
>> priority".
>>
>> If you have any other views on this matter, don't hesitate to spit them out
>> ;).
>>
>> /tomplast
>>
> Sounds like a sensible idea for KDE generally. I suggest co-posting to KDE
> Usability <kde-usability at kde.org>
>
> A fix upstream is better for us as everyone benefits, we maintain consistency,
> get translations and don't have to support it in the future.
>
> Hope it gets approved :-)
> (N.B KDE is in string freeze (messages can't be changed) for KDE4.4 at
> present)
>
> David Edmundson

Sounds like a good Papercut.
~ Yuriy



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