'Change Desktop Background' desktop context menu item doesn't make clear how much more you can change in gnome-appearance-properties

[stereoit]

Hi, this one is for papercuts.

in nautilus, can we change the label 'Change Desktop Background' (wallpaper right click context menu)?

With Appearance Preferences one can do much more than set Wallpaper (Theme, Fonts, Visual Effects). So I think the label does not express it well. Perhaps 'Desktop Preferences' or 'Computer Preferences' or complete 'System Preferences' (launch 'Control Center' as in Karmic's top right icon function)? Or any other name.

[Hercules_100_98 (hercules-100-98)]

How about "Change Desktop Appearance" ???

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Changing the status of this bug report in the Hundred Paper Cuts bug report to comply with the status in the Ubuntu project.

[DancemasterGlenn (himynameiszachandiamapirate)]

Hey, I'm a bit confused... this bug and another (#152561 ) have both been marked as "invalid", and the reason given is that it has already been reported. So where is the original bug? Why aren't they being merged together? Is this something that was deemed a non-issue in 2007 (or earlier) and now will no longer be warranted with discussion? I'm pretty sure even Windows changed their right click option to "appearance" or something like it a few years back, and given the wealth of options we get under the appearance window, does it really not make sense to change this? Linux is all about theme-ablility (moreso than the other "big two" distros), it should be advertised proudly that we can do a whole lot more than just change a background...

[Jan (jancborchardt-deactivatedaccount)]

DancemasterGlenn:
I don’t know which bug bug #152561 is a duplicate of but this one is certainly a duplicate of that. I’m marking it as such (merging together).

However, Roel from bug #152561 comment #2 makes a good point:
»When you right-click your desktop you want - most likely - to change the background. The fact that this is now integrated in the Appearance window is not relevant, you are taken to the Background tab immediately.«

[DancemasterGlenn (himynameiszachandiamapirate)]

(continuing here so I don't look crazy over there... I'll make a post on the "main bug" saying I posted some rantings and ravings over here)

Then why even have the background window as a part of the overarching appearance window? I can tell you that I personally have clicked the "appearance" button in preferences fewer times than I could count on my hands in the last two years, ever since I learned that "change background" brought me to the exact same place. I use it to set up/test fonts, install/test changes to themes, and yes, I even use it to add a whole bunch of wallpapaers, and then proceed to use just one for about a release cycle. I'm not saying that the wallpapaer section shouldn't be the first thing you see, I do think that's the thing people will use the most often. But it is not at all a jump of logic for a person to see the word "appearance" and not still understand they can change their background there.

Having checked, Windows now uses "personalize". Is that going to throw off a user looking to change their wallpaper? Well... I don't think so.

[DancemasterGlenn (himynameiszachandiamapirate)]

In case there was any confusion, instead of going up to preferences, I am using the right click menu to get to appearance. The preferences entry is the one I almost never think to use.