Please Comment: Proposal to change the name of Applications -> Add/Remove...

[petr bug]

Dereck <dereck at gmail.com>
> "Software Library" reflects what it really is IMHO.

Or Program Catalog or Application Repository (a packager's preferred :-) ) or

Gadgets Database or some other combination. People usually do not care about

name of a tool as long as it does what they want. And as long as they can

find the right tool based on what they want.

Perhaps users want a "Software Library" but certainly they want to "Add or

Remove Programs".

Once they see "Add or Remove Programs" they realize a mental match and click

it. Title of the window that appears next is less important - they already

know it is related to adding or removing programs, as long as the window

appears before they loose track of what effect was caused by which click (few

seconds).

Tomasz Dominikowski:
> I don't think Ubuntu should be
> influenced by design decisions in a single phone (iPhone) and a niche
> (for now) phone platform.

Partially valid. Ubuntu should be influenced if a) the design is clever or b)

makes transition easier for many users and is not more stupid than current

design. However there are still too few users of iPod or Android and I

believe the proposed name is less clever.

> I would suggest focusing on things that are really broken.

Matter of opinion. Example:

1) Abiword crashes under certain circumstances.
2) Friend of mine could not establish openvpn connection because VPN wizard

asked him questions he did not understand although the fields were not

necessary.

Most coders I met assign higher priority to a crash (no matter how rare) than

to any user-interaction problem.

2009/1/15 Rick Spencer <rick.spencer at canonical.com>:
> I think the proposal addresses more than a usability problem, I think it
> was put forth also to capitalize on a perception opportunity. In other
> words, perhaps having a "place" to go is something that users think is
> rather cool. We have such a place, but we don't position it as such.

Propagating a feature (a name for "place") is good for news announcement and

for word of mouth on forums, there is to be read not to be used.

In short: Keep the current one, though I appreciate the initiative.

Petr