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bug#14919: 24.3.50; Bad menu name: `Directory Search'. Misleading termi


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#14919: 24.3.50; Bad menu name: `Directory Search'. Misleading terminology used.
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:26:45 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:02:06 -0800
> Cc: 14919@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > This menu is apparently about directory services or directory servers.
> > It should be called something appropriate.
> >
> > In Emacs generally, "directory" means a file-system directory - a
> > folder.  A directory service such as LDAP is something quite different,
> > and this menu name is misleading.  Consider perhaps `Directory Services'
> > or `Directory Servers'.
> 
> Yeah, I agree.  Anybody mind if I rename this to "Directory Services"?

"Directory Servers" or "Emacs Directory Client" sound better to me.
What you suggests can still be interpreted as related to filesystem
directories.





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