From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 14919@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14919: 24.3.50; Bad menu name: `Directory Search'. Misleading terminology used.
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 03:16:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737q5cizi.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vbwqvtt6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:26:45 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:02:06 -0800
>> Cc: 14919@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>>
>> > This menu is apparently about directory services or directory servers.
>> > It should be called something appropriate.
>> >
>> > In Emacs generally, "directory" means a file-system directory - a
>> > folder. A directory service such as LDAP is something quite different,
>> > and this menu name is misleading. Consider perhaps `Directory Services'
>> > or `Directory Servers'.
>>
>> Yeah, I agree. Anybody mind if I rename this to "Directory Services"?
>
> "Directory Servers" or "Emacs Directory Client" sound better to me.
> What you suggests can still be interpreted as related to filesystem
> directories.
I've now renamed it to "Directory Servers".
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-21 0:24 bug#14919: 24.3.50; Bad menu name: `Directory Search'. Misleading terminology used Drew Adams
2014-02-08 6:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-08 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-11 11:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-29 1:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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