Comment by aidenn0
4 years ago
Since the comments here are rapidly turning into a "dump on GNOME" section, does anyone know if there is a master list of "What the GNOME documentation calls an application" <-> "What everybody else calls an application"
e.g.
- "Passwords and Keys" <-> "seahorse"
I want a master cheatsheet for gnome commands too. These are some of the commands I needed to memorize when working with gnome:
nautilus <-> File Manager
evince <-> Document Viewer
eog <-> Image viewer
baobab <-> Disk Usage Analyzer
Tbh KDE is worse at this because at least when you are using Gnome it won't call Nautilus Nautilus. It will call it Files, unlike on Plasma where Dolphin will be called Dolphin instead of being called Files or File Manager, which means that people who don't know Dolphin is the file manager will just be really confused as to what Dolphin is, especially if they don't already know that this icon always means file manager no matter what 0S you're on. Linus actually had this issue when he couldn't figure out what Kate was because he saw Kate and he thought what's Kate. Whereas on Gnome it would just say Text Editor instead of gedit. If you are using the terminal, you are more likely to know the actual name of the program so that's less bad for me. And on KDE if you are opening graphical applications through the console, you still have to open them through their weird code names. For example, Dolphin which makes no sense whatsoever. Just the same as Nautilus makes no sense whatsoever so that arguement is somewhat disingenuous.
If you are using the application menu, this is now fixed; there is a description next to items, and typing in the search includes searching in the menu; when I search for "editor" it shows emacs, vim, and ecrire (along with a couple other non text editor programs like "palette editor". Searching for "text editor' shows just the text editors; I don't have kate installed, but I assume it would show up here if it were.
Similarly dolphin shows "File Manager" next to it, and when I to search for "file manager" it is right at the top of the list.
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Hmm mac os does this too (and tbh explaining to noobs that files are in the "Finder" gets perplexed stares, same with "Preview" for viewing pdfs?!?) "Explorer" isn't much better ...
However I can at least remember "Finder", "Preview" whereas I can never remember "eog" and have to look in old shell scripts to find out. Worst name ever with no way to discover it.
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For me, I use evolution for email, which uses the GNOME keyring and I couldn't for the life of me figure out that I needed to install seahorse to manage it.
Of course I'm not even remotely in their targeted user base since I don't run GNOME, but it annoyed me nonetheless.
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