[sugar] Log Viewer -> View Log? (Was: [PATCH] Log Viewer overhaul)

[Paul Fox]

marco pesenti gritti wrote:
 > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Morgan Collett
 > <morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Eduardo H Silva <hoboprimate at gmail.com> 
 > wrote:
 > >  >  Forking the thread here, but I wonder if this activity could be
 > >  >  renamed to something more closely following the "verb" standard, like
 > >  >  "View log(s)"? Nitpick perhaps, but goes along my opinion that our
 > >  >  dictionaries don't have enough verbs to exactly identify all
 > >  >  activities that will appear, so adding a noun when necessary would
 > >  >  improve things.
 > >
 > >  How about Inspect or Diagnose?
 > 
 > We have Analyze already, which is a separate activity.
 > 
 > View Logs sounds good to me. Eben?

since you bring it up, in my opinion "Analyze" suffers from
incomplete naming as well.  analyze what?  though i know i've
learned it twice before, to be honest i can't at the moment
remember what it does -- all i can think of is that it's going to
let me do some kind of science experiment.  but it's something to
do with system statistics or resources right?

seems to me that names either have to be quite unrelated to
preconceptions of their meaning ("TamTam", "Pippy"), or fairly
descriptive ("Read", "Browse", "Calculate").  and as eduardo
points out, there aren't enough verbs to use verbs alone for
descriptive names.

paul
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