Menu, description, and About box disagree about what the program is called

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: file-roller

1. Launch the Ubuntu Software Center.
2. Locate "Archive Manager" and open its application screen.
3. Launch the Archive Manager itself (e.g. by opening a .zip file) and choose "Help" > "About".

What you see:
2. The title is "Archive Manager", but the description begins "File-roller is an archive manager...".
3. The main window title is "Archive Manager", but the About box calls it "File Roller".

Either the program is called Archive Manager, or it is called File Roller. Either way, the application title, description, window title, and About box should all agree on what it's called.

It may save time to fix bug 15495 at the same time as this bug.

[Reported via e-mail by Gervase Markham.]

[Waldir Leoncio (wleoncio)]

Version 2.28.1 says "File Roller: An archive manager for GNOME." Is that the version you have there? It doesn't look that much confusing to me, but maybe it's just because I'm used to it: nautilus reads "File Browser" on title, evince reads "Document Viewer"... I think this is just the way Ubuntu found to make it easier for new users. Who'd figure out nautilus is a file browser? I see your point, but I don't think this is a bug after all.

[Gerv (gerv)]

This bug is about the text in Ubuntu Software Centre, not the text in the About: box of File-Roller itself. Although it should probably be made consistent with whatever.

Ideally, Ubuntu would not have an "Archive Manager" at all - the default file manager would seamlessly deal with archives. But if it has to have one, I would suggest "Compressed File Manager" as the best name for the application, for those who might not know what it does.

Gerv

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Waldir, the inconsistencies with Nautilus and Evince should be reported as separate bugs.

Suggestions for alternative names belong in 15495. This bug report is about making the application title, description, window title, and About box consistent.

[Vish (vish)]

Needs to be sent to debian?

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Shouldn't this be forwarded to GNOME? I haven't found anything related in the file-roller bugs, and maybe they'd fix it for Gnome3.

[Vish (vish)]

@Robert Roth: yes, Upstream need to either fix their window title or Debian needs to change the packaging info. Let's first try in GNOME.

[Vish (vish)]

Window title or the About box needs fixing.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Forwarded upstream to Gnome, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635845.

[Vish (vish)]

Thanks for forwarding the bug to gnome