Comment 47 for bug 146918

Thanks for pitching in here! Allow me to comment on a few of your suggestions, though.

As a general comment, these are applications which are started when your session is initiated. Many of them are infrastructure, daemon-type programs which do not directly expose a user interface. Therefore I find it slightly problematic to describe them in terms of "what the user can do".

> "GNOME accessibility" - "Arrange alternative interaction devices"

I'd also be hesitant to coin new names for existing components. Users who know what AT-SPI is might be annoyed to find it renamed to something novel. In order to cover this legacy issue, at a minimum I'd like to keep the old name in the description somewhere. How about

"GNOME AT-SPI Accessibility" - "Enable alternative input and output devices"

> "Evolution alarm notifier" - "Configure advanced alarm clock features"
(is this correct?)

I think they fixed this one already; the current one is IMHO clearer and more correct.

> "GNOME keyring" - "Manage authentication for your GPG encryption keys"

I'm at loss to the relationship between Seahorse and the GNOME Keyring. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Keyring says Seahorse should replace the old keyring altogether. If that's the case, it will handle both SSH and GPG keys. In any event, this component does "manage" them from the system's perspective, but it's more of a daemon for interconnecting the key store with applications, if I understand any of this at all. Maybe this description is fine; I'm just thinking out loud here.

> "GNOME login sound" - "Configure system sounds"

To the best of my understanding, this one merely plays the sound; you configure it elsewhere.

"GNOME Login Sound" - "Play the login chime"

> "GNOME settings" - "Manage computer configurations"
>"GNOME settings helper" - "Automatically manage computer
configurations" (is this correct?)

I'm sorry, I'm not really comfortable with this. I don't understand this (see my comments above) but in any event, I believe this manages only the core GNOME configuration, i.e. basically what you can manipulate with gconftool. Most of what users want to configure is handled elsewhere.

> "GNOME splash screen" - "Change startup screen graphics"

Again, like with the login sound, this one just executes, doesn't configure.

> "Indicator applet" - "Configure notifications for system"

Do you genuinely understand what this one does? Could you point to some documentation? Is this the new notification thingamajig? Why does it require a separate startup process in order to add something to the panel, anyway?

> "Network manager" - "Connect to a computer network"
> "Power manager" - "Change power settings"

Again, these run a service which enable you to do these things, but do not directly expose a user interface. Maybe I'm too picky; maybe these are fine.

Finally, I vaguely think the Name field should perhaps be in Title Case, like most of the existing entries.

Thanks again for coming up with a good proposal. These are all minor nits for the most part.