Comment 20 for bug 15495

To reiterate the point I made (in the attached Gnome bug) when I filed this originally, a reasonable proportion of computer users do not recognise the word "archive" as referring to a file containing other files. I asked the original user who prompted me to file this bug, and I also surveyed around ten other people (members of my family, non-technical computer users in my office, and one guy at a bus stop), and every one of them (all native English speakers) thought that an "archive" was a big dusty room full of books and folders, like a library. None of them recognised the term "archive" as being anything to do with computer files, and after I explained the meaning to (most of) them, they said that it didn't really make sense as a word.

Whether "Archive Manager" is a technically "correct" term is rather beside the point, I feel; if users don't understand what the word means then it's not useful to them. My friend (who originally asked the question which caused me to file this bug) was looking for a way to create a Zip file; when I explained that "Archive Manager" was the way to do that, he said that he'd seen that in the menus but hadn't tried using it because he didn't want to manage an archive (because an archive is a big dusty room full of books).