Consistently use "App" instead of "Application" or "Program"

[Cassidy James Blaede]

Right now, most of the documentation and discussion has been using the term "app" for end-user-facing programs. It's become a well-know and -used term in the broader markets (iOS apps, Android apps, Mac apps, apps for your TV, apps on your game consoles, etc.) and is probably going to be more-commonly-used, at least from my experience here in the US, than "Programs" or "Applications."

However, we're still seeing a few places where we have "application" or "program." Most notably: the button in WingPanel. It's also inconsistent in a few places across the site or in documentation.

To keep consistency and to prevent us from having three different terms for the same thing, we should use "app" everywhere.

If there are compelling arguments to the contrary, I'm willing to listen to them, but I'm pretty set on this at this point. ;)

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

The reason we changed the string in Wingpanel was because Slingshot didn't align quite right with only "apps". Other than that exception, I fully agree :)

[tim schoen (timschoen123-deactivatedaccount)]

But what about older people? Do they know an app is? I don't think so...

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Do they know what an application or a program is? No.
Someone like that will click as their grandchild explained, no matter what you call it.

I don't know if "app" will be any more successful than "folder" in replacing other terminology, but consistency means the user can see the same word across the system and documentation and know what it means.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

This conflicts with bug #850696
Which label do we actually want?!

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Marking this as invalid for wingpanel. "Apps" doesn't align correctly with Slingshot and it presents a small hit area.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

OK. Any other places where it needs to be changed?
+ marking incomplete for the OS, it's not clear what it has to do with the OS, looks like it needs to be changed in the apps.

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