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Re: Linux Becomes Female?

__/ On Sunday 28 August 2005 11:04, [Juha Siltala] wrote : \__

> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:55:21 +0000, Michael Black wrote:
> 
>> The Brown Suit distribution.  Or maybe "Linux Business".
>> 
>> But it will be a drag to write all those applications so the weirdly
>> titled apps don't have to be included.
> 
> You don't have to rewrite all the apps. GNOME application menus already
> use labels such as "Music Player" instead of "Rhythmbox". Some
> distributions (especially the corporate ones) further clean stuff up and
> hide the app names from window manager titlebars, hiding them to the
> "About" box or such. After all, their users really want a "web browser"
> and not "Epiphany".

True. Here is the visual evidence from the distro that I use at work:

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=305&slide=48

Roy

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