Question on names for OO.org applications

Belinda Lopez belinda.lopez at canonical.com
Thu Nov 27 13:31:46 UTC 2008


I'm a bit confused over the convention used to refer to the OO.org suite 
of applications, or rather the individual applications.  When you access 
them in the various menus, Applications -->Office-->OO.org AppType it 
refers to each by Application type, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Word 
Processor. (I'm using 8.04) yet in many areas of documentation and 
training materials, we refer to these items by the "interior" 
application names; Calc, Writer, Impress.  To an end user, they only see 
those titles when the application is opened, yet many of the materials 
refer to these by name.  I guess I'm trying to understand what would be 
the best way to refer to these applications for a new user target 
audience; switchers from MS.  This is becoming very confusing to try to 
write materials when there is a difference in the menu item and 
application name.

Is there a convention for referring to these items?  i.e. by name or by 
application? 

Is there any traction to make the menu titles match the application names? 

thanks,

Dinda

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PK





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