gparted should read "GNOME Partition Editor" in menu

Bug #34596 reported by Jonathon Conte
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gparted (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I'm running Dapper testing (Flight 5 + updates).

Gparted is currently called "Gnome Partition Editor" in the menu. This should read "GNOME Partition Editor" because GNOME is an acronym.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. I'm not sure, "Partition Editor" is probably enough

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Jonathon Conte (thesicktwist) wrote :

That works for me. I do not care whether or not GNOME is there, only that it has the correct capitalization if it is there.

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Tim Fuchs (tim-fuchs) wrote : gparted should read "Partition Editor" in menu

I'll just quote the HIG here:

"1.1.2. Only put useful information in the menu name

Do not include words like "GNOME", "X Window System", "GTK+" or other platform details in Application menu names. The user probably already knows what platform they are using, and if they don't, then application names are not the right place to inform them."

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Tim Fuchs (tim-fuchs) wrote :

I confirmed the bug although the title actually proposes a wrong solution. Please read my last comment.

Changed in gparted:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Jonathon Conte (thesicktwist) wrote :

Thanks for the HIG reference, Tim. So should gparted appear in the menu as "Gparted Partition Editor" to follow the naming scheme in the Applications menu or is "Partition Editor" enough?

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Tim Fuchs (tim-fuchs) wrote :

I would suggest to drop the "gparted" and also to rename the titlebar of the program's main window.

The HIG states:
"Do not include technical details when the user does not need to know them, or can infer them from context. Avoid technical jargon unless the application is to be used only by a technical audience."

Additionally gparted stands for (GNOME/GTK Partition Editor) and we already have the "Partition Editor" bit and parted itself refers to a library, nothing any user should have to care about.

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