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Network menu entry is confusing
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RESOLVED: FIXED
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enhancement

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Description Jérôme Guelfucci editbugs 2007-08-11 15:33:12 CEST
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Epiphany/2.18 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty)
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This was reported on Launchpad : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfdesktop4/+bug/79053
by : https://bugs.launchpad.net/~mdke

"Network" is a bad name for a menu. Many users don't know what it means, or if they do, are scared by it. I'd suggest "Internet" instead as in Gnome and KDE.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Harald Judt 2010-11-19 17:00:58 CET
I'd vote against a rename, for the following reasons:

1. "Network" is more general and encompasses more applications, not all network applications deal with the Internet. I think "Network" is more apt than "Internet" or "Communication".

2. There are the default www and mail launcher icons, that's all an inexperienced user needs and will probably use. I never search for my default web browser and mail in "Network".

3. Most users won't care about the title after they have found what they needed. New users will be /scared/ by the menu anyway, and need to find there way first.
Comment 2 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-06-19 15:48:29 CEST
Fixed in e376b55.

Bug #3459

Reported by:
Jérôme Guelfucci
Reported on: 2007-08-11
Last modified on: 2011-06-19

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Jannis Pohlmann
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