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Re: Capsule critiques & notes [quasi OFF-TOPIC]

There is already a bug asking for a custom icon for /Developer/Applications (I filed it a while back), which would definitely help make the folder more distinguishable.

Can you give an example of wheat you mean by your second comment? I think it's pretty obvious that having distinct icons are necessary (since most of the time you just see the icon), but I'm curious what you mean about the naming.

Scott

On Monday, May 14, 2001, at 01:09 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:

Regarding Mac OS X:

1) The "/Developer/Applications" folder needs a better, more distinctive
name. I want to make it easily accessible, so I dragged it into the Dock.
Unfortunately, its Dock-name is simply "Applications", which confuses it
with "/Applications" which I've also dragged into the Dock. This is bad,
and will only get worse.

On the whole, developers (including Apple) must be very careful about
naming things. The Dock DOES NOT show any kind of qualifying name or
context, so names should be INDEPENDENTLY DISTINCT, regardless of context.
I recommend Roget's International Thesaurus, 5th edition or later. And an
unabridged dictionary.
Scott Tooker
QA & Integration - Project Builder
Mac OS X Development Environment

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 >Capsule critiques & notes [quasi OFF-TOPIC] (From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>)



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