The GNOME Journal, March Edition

jimmy_dean writes "The latest issue of The GNOME Journal has just been published. This regularly published online magazine features original content and commentary for and by the GNOME Community. This issue covers some technical articles, including Audio CD Ripping/Burning by Ken Vandine and Simplified Package Management in Ubuntu Hoary by John Meuser. Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.10, we include a tour of 2.10 by Sayamindu Dasgupta and also the evolution of Evolution 2.2 by Jorge O. Castro. Also, art.gnome.org gets a face lift as told by Link Dupont."

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Ubuntu package management

[QuantumG]

I sure hope they changed the menu option for package management. Have a look at this screenshot. Everything on the System Configuration menu has a "nice" name that most anyone could understand. Except, that is, the package manager. The average user is going to be asking. Why is "Synaptic" in the menu option? Wtf is a "package manager" anyways? I'm not going to click on that. A better name for that menu option would have been: Install and Update Software.

Re:Ubuntu package management

[Brandybuck]

A better name for that menu option would have been: Install and Update Software.

Yet another example of "usability means we must use the wrong terminology." A package manager is NOT the same thing as a software installer and updater. "Package manager" is the correct term, is the common term in all Unix and Unix like systems, and should thus remain the term to use. We should not dumb (ei. stupidify) the UI down to the level of how moronic you believe people to be. Yes, this might confuse some newbies freshly come over from Microsoft, but as the saying goes, your first day on the job only lasts one day.