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24.3.50; Bad menu name: `Directory Search'. Misleading terminology used.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 14919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#14919: 24.3.50; Bad menu name: `Directory Search'.  Misleading terminology used.
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:48:57 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
>> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:02:06 -0800
>> Cc: 14919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> 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.

Yup.  Should wait until the next release cycle, though.

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