[Thunar-dev] Name suggestion

[Foxtrot]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:48:46 +0200, Benedikt Meurer
<benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Aurélien Tabard wrote:
> > I'd like to know if you think a usability study of thunar or even xfce
> > would be usefull and listened to.
> 
> Definetly! For both Xfce and Thunar (tho, I can only speak for myself).

More field research:

Preferred names:
Secretary (2 votes)
Nomad
PathFinder (2 votes)
Digger

I only asked two people, but what the heck; any info is good info, no?

They both preferred the personifications that were most descriptive of
the task. Becasue of this, I've tried to locate the word that best
describes the task - other than File Manager (taken). I summed up its
functions in three words: Organize, allocate, and modify. I put these
into thesaurus, and saw if I found something that was equivalent to
most of these.

Regulate was the word I found, and I propose Regulator as a name now.
I'll probably keep looking, but I think that it's at least acceptable
name, at least, if not very appealing to the ears. :-)

Anyway, "archivist" was the only suggestion that I got. It desribes
the task, but I can't help but think it sounds _too_ much like a human
given the "ist" at the end. I've never heard of a program ending with
"ist" before. Maybe that's just me.
 
The people I asked didn't like Regulator. :-)

> > Aurélien.
> 
> greets,
> Benedikt
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