Simplify dialog title strings of goodies

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sat Nov 15 12:39:13 CET 2008


On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:27:44 +0100 Enrico Tröger wrote:
> 
> - Titles of preference dialogs: simply title it with the plugin name.
> There is no need to for anything like "Xfce4 Foo" or "Foo
> preferences". Call it "Foo". Preference dialogs are generally easily
> noticeable as such without the need to explicitly state it.

Well, we already decided this on xfce4-dev week or 2 ago and this
is mostly done already ^_^.

> - Remove any "Xfce4" or "Xfce" parts from dialog titles and in general
> from user-visible strings containing the application/plugin name.
> Users most probably know that they are running Xfce :). Especially for
> panel plugins.
> Exception: About dialogs where the real application name is desired
> (e.g. Xfce4 Dictionary, Xfce4 Mailwatch Plugin, ...).

Isn't that more or less the same thing as the above?

	-brian



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