Thanks Steve, little things like this make a big difference to new comers to lubuntu, hopefully as we're dead early in the cycle Julien can get them implemented in to 13.04. Once they're accepted in raring I will ask about what hoops & jumps I need to do to have them SRU'd into 12.10 - Julien will have to help me on this!
Regards, Phill. On 10 November 2012 20:50, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 31/10/12 12:48, Yorvyk wrote: > >> During my brief bit of usability testing with software centres >> another problem reared it's ugly head. Some of the entries in the >> apps menu are remarkable for their meaninglessness and could do with >> changing. As an example: Menu > Office > Gnumeric with the tooltip - >> 'Calculation, Analysis, and Visualisation of Information". >> >> My three users have never really used a spreadsheet and this meant >> nothing to them. Their suggestion was to change the menu entry to >> >> 'Gnumeric Spreadsheet' or some thing similar, as long as sit >> contained the word 'spreadsheet. Abiword was recognised as a >> word-processor, but only because it had 'word' in it's name. They >> also struggled to find a PDF viewer. Evince is labelled 'Document >> Viewer' with the tool tip saying 'View multi-page documents'. No >> mention of PDF. I'll be going through the menu later in the week with >> a couple of them to see if they can come up with some more obvious >> entries. I'll then raise a bug for this. >> >> We had a rather short session on this, but the consensus was that some > entries don't make it obvious what they are. Things like gnumeric and > sylpheed are not well known and don't really give a clue from their name > what they do. I know they have tool-tips to expand the description, but if > you're just opening menus looking for an application these don't show up > until you hover over the entry. The suggestion was to have simple entries > like spreadsheet or email. When I suggested that some people may have more > than one spreadsheet or word-processor installed they were puzzles why, but > agreed that some thing like sylpheed e-mail client would be OK. So we ended > up with the following, others may need to be dealt with, but these were the > most obvious in the short time we had. > > Audacious Music Player > Calculator - (with a 'C' not a 'G' as this looks like a typo) > Evince PDF Viewer > Gnumeric Spreadsheet > Guvcview Web-cam viewer > Leafpad Editor > Mplayer Video Player > Sylpheed E-mail Client > Transmission Bit-torrent > Xpad Notes > > We'll have a look at others and the tool tips next time I see them. > > > > -- > Steve > > > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > -- > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > >
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