On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:46, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> wrote:
> > People know what a web browser is. > > By far, most of them do not. > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEt0N3xu0Do> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH5ZIXItkS8> > > > The menu doesn't control > > the page, but rather the application that renders a page. For > > OpenOffice.org, the menu wouldn't say "editing my resume" or "designing > > a website" or "putting numbers of some sort into a table", would it? > > No, because that's things that people use OOo for and they know that > > it's all the same program; same with Firefox. > > If you have a document open in Microsoft Word and a spreadsheet open in > Microsoft Excel, and you choose "Quit" from Excel's application menu on > the Mac (or "Exit" from its Office button on Windows), the spreadsheet > will close. But if you had the same document open in OpenOffice.org > Writer, and the same spreadsheet open in OpenOffice.org Calc, and you > chose "Quit" from OpenOffice.org's app menu in Gnome Shell, the > spreadsheet would close, and -- surprise! -- the document would close too. > Thank you! That's why we want to move the desktop to human language. Words like "application", "service" or "process" have nothing to do with writing a letter, watching a movie or listening to music.
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