GNU bug report logs - #14919
24.3.50; Bad menu name: `Directory Search'. Misleading terminology used.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:25:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 14919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 14919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14919: 24.3.50;
 Bad menu name: `Directory Search'.  Misleading terminology used.
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:02:06 -0800

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"?

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