From 36a3f2566b2bccb428a91a6a3bde9e29be9d2b48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dhess Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:32:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment: Choose a friendly/unintimidating name --- ...ent_4_549b07bb02c07a5b1b95445b01758db2._comment | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/design/assistant/blog/day_49__first_run_experience/comment_4_549b07bb02c07a5b1b95445b01758db2._comment diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_49__first_run_experience/comment_4_549b07bb02c07a5b1b95445b01758db2._comment b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_49__first_run_experience/comment_4_549b07bb02c07a5b1b95445b01758db2._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f261d1c238 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_49__first_run_experience/comment_4_549b07bb02c07a5b1b95445b01758db2._comment @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="dhess" + ip="173.247.200.7" + subject="Choose a friendly/unintimidating name" + date="2012-09-13T00:32:15Z" + content=""" +You've already decided to accommodate mom by choosing ~/Desktop as the default location, so you should be consistent: choose a name that means something to people. \"Annex\" and \"GitAnnex\" are good branding, but not very user-friendly. (Contrast with \"Dropbox\", the default folder name for Dropbox -- good branding *and* reasonably meaningful.) + +\"Shared\" is friendly, but implies that you're sharing with other people, which isn't necessarily the case. (You should reserve the name \"Shared\" for a sub-directory of the default directory, anyway, if/when the time comes to implement sharing URLs to your g-a-a objects with other users.) + +I think that \"Synced\" is fine. Most English-speakers will know what it means, and it's a good description of what g-a-a does. + +Don't worry whether we like it or not. Nobody who comments here, nor, likely, anyone who votes, will use the default name anyway ;) +"""]]