GNOME weird application renaming
Ivaylo Valkov (Ивайло Вълков) at
Can somebody share a link with the discussion about the renaming/simplifying the names of all integrated GNOME applications? I don't understand why they've changed the names of everything. I'm curious about the motivation behind this. I just don't get why and how the change helps.
I'm not sure exactly what has changed, but for example a new user isn't going to know they need to click on e.g. "Iceweasel" to access the web :-)
I'm not sure about Iceweasel. GNOME integrates with Epiphany (now simply Web). All applications switched to names closer to what they do.
I have absolutely no insight into this (I'm still on Gnome 3.4 on Debian wheezy), but my guess is that's the reason: a new user understands what "Web" means, have no clue what "Epiphany" is supposed to do.
That might be true, but still. All programs in the GNOME menu ever since 2.x had a descriptive string, not just the name. I just observe a lot of weird direction in GNOME since Gnome-Shell and 3.x.