Re:Program Naming (Score 2, Insightful)

Its all good and well to have a philosophy of naming etc and as you quite rightly state these guys are doing the grunt work for nothing. But the material they produce would "probably" be much more widely used if it had more descriptive naming. Given that this isnt the case in most times in any OS. But if Linux is to be more widely used and seen as the "ducks nutts" for easy operatorability (is that a word !) then it would make it much easier to find a app if they were more intiuatively named. If you dont have to spend time trolling your menu lists or the net to find an app for what you want to do, especially if its already loaded, then you have more time to invest in actually using the app itself. Granted that in KDE (I dont use GNOME - its an asthetics thing ! ) menu lists and final apps are usually placed under the right headings. However this isnt always the case and in this instances your left wondering what the hell the app is for. Mind you I still kick them up to find out what the hell it does do. But not everyone could be bothered or interested in doing this.