[Bug 31199] "Revert" should be called "Reload from disk", and a new Revert implemented

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31199

Comment:
I was going to argue that this is a bit spurious as there are countless
programs on many platforms that have been using Revert to mean "Reload
from disk". I was all set to point to OpenOffice.org as such an example
when upon loading it I found it was labelled "Reload"...

You make a good point and because of the Unix file semantics it is quite possible for another program to change the document beneath GEdit causing a revert to no longer act as an undo. However you are up against the GNOME HIG on this one:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html#id2527128
I suspect you would have to get it overturned/renamed there before GEdit would change its menu.

Convention means that people expect an item called Revert and most of
the programs I've ever used have implemented this as a reload. It's a
bad convention but you can always ask upstream...