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the package is indicator-messages.
bug reported by Christian:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gwibber/+bug/965328/
added some extra info.
On 03/25/2012 10:37 PM, Chris wrote:
I agree with the suggested name-change. +1 from me.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 21:26, Brandon
Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 03/25/2012 03:16 PM, Nekhelesh wrote:
On 03/25/2012 09:13 PM, Evan
Huus wrote:
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at
3:06 PM, Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 25/03/12 19:06, Omar B. wrote:
from an user study some time ago
about ubuntu's showstoppers:
http://design.canonical.com/2010/06/when-new-users-first-encounter-ubuntu-5-show-stoppers/
3. Use of jargon
During their exploration
of Ubuntu, participants
encountered words they didn’t
know, or didn’t expect, or
terms that they had no use
for: examples included
‘Gwibber’,’broadcast’,’terminal’
and ‘server’. “You lose me
with ‘terminal’ and ‘server’.”
one person said.
The use of such
specialised language
significantly influenced how
users perceived the brand and
the intended audience for
Ubuntu. Some of the
participants wondered whether
Ubuntu was meant really for
expert users rather than for
them.
So I told a friend that ubuntu
came with social network
integration (facebook/twitter)
right in the panel.
She then later called me because
she couldn't find the way to do it.
I then explained to her that she
needed to go to "set up broadcast
account".
She told me she didnt want to
"broadcast stuff", she just wanted
to get status updates from her
friends on facebook...
I then told her that what a
broadcast account really meant is
connect to her social network.
So should we really be using the trademarks of
proprietary services to label features of the
operating system? Yes you might want to Hoover
the carpet, and Xerox some documents and but
you should understand that using a vacuum
cleaner or a photocopier are the more correct
general terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark.
Arguably we could say that "social networks"
is a more understood term than "broadcast
accounts", but I don't think using the
trademarks would be a good idea. I guess most
people actually don't want to broadcast what
they are doing, what they want to do is lurk
and see what other people are doing. There are
a lot more readers than writers on social
networks.
I don't think we should use brand-name terms for
the label either (especially since Gwibber
supports so many different services), but I
don't think that's what Omar was suggesting.
"Social Networking" or even just "Social" would
still work better for me than "Broadcast".
Evan
+1..The term "Social Networking" is more clearer than
"Broadcast".
Nekhelesh
+1 to this. To many users the term "Broadcast" is a rather
poor indication of what this is. The term Social Networking
would certainly be an improvement.
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Can we get a bug report for this? I can do this but am not sure
against which package to report this under. Please advice and I can
do it if required.
Nekhelesh
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