About Pidgin being labeled as "Pidgin Internet Messenger" in the application menu

Bryan Quigley gquigs at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 17:17:18 BST 2008


It's funny I kept reading it as *Instant* when it really said *Internet*
Should be changed in my opinion, have you reported it as a bug?

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Exsecrabilus Exsecrabilus <
exsecrabilus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am going to make a request/suggestion for a change. This isn't one of
> those changes that'd be like "PLEASE UBUNTU DEVS UBUNTU NEEDS THIS NO RATHER
> GNOME NEEDS IT AND YOU TOO."
>
> This is one of those changes that'd be like "Oh, why didn't we do that
> before?" It's:
> -Easy to do; a few seconds (or I assume.)
> -It doesn't fix any bugs; but if you look at it, makes sense, and again,
> you exclaim "Oh, why didn't we do that before?"
>
> Here it is:
>
> Why is Pidgin labeled "Pidgin --Internet Messenger--" when the section it
> is under is labeled "Internet" also, therefore making it redundant?
> It should be "Instant Messenger" as is the proper name accepted by all;
> Empathy labels it like so, so why not Pidgin?
>
> Then you might ask me, if I want it that way, just change it myself. But
> the problem is, I like sticking to the default. And when I change the system
> language, that menu item doesn't get changed because I altered it.
>
> Again I will say, this isn't one of those critical things, and you will
> say, "That's not important at the moment." But this will help polishing up
> Ubuntu.
>
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