[Training Community] Question on names for OO.org applications

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Belinda Lopez
<belinda.lopez at canonical.com>wrote:

> 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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Belinda,

I would recommend we follow what the system documentation does and referes
to them by what the menu is.  I know in different versions and at different
stages of the development they change them back and forth.  However we stay
consistent with what the documentation team has named them.  If I recall is
it with the name such as Presentation, Spreadsheet, etc.  I do thnk that at
some point we should mention the interoir names, such as Calc, Writer,
Impress

JOnathan
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