[drupal-docs] Customizing applications pages - was: minor correction

[Kieran Lal]

On May 9, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Anisa wrote:

> Certainly we are aiming for consistency not more confusion.  You  
> wouldn't be able to successfully search the forums with  
> 'applications'.

http://drupal.org/search/node/application
-Note the top link ;-)

>
> Not really sure you are benefiting the end user, the individual  
> Drupal Admin, by calling something an application instead of a  
> module.  Perhaps when you submit the feature request, it could be  
> done like node where in the Drupal install itself, a node is always  
> referred as a post...

Yeah, and Ghandi should have worn British cloth until the British  
agreed to move the textile industries to India.  No, sorry I don't  
want to ask permission from the Drupal elitists.  I want to use a  
word that makes sense to the long tail that are part of the tens of  
thousands of Drupal users,  and not just one that makes sense to the  
top 300.

If my revolutionary zeal doesn't appeal to you let's try the tip of  
the sword of capitalism, good old marketing.   Let's say you are  
looking for a blog application.   Type that in google and see what  
comes up.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blog+application

Of course if you are an uber-geek then of course you are not looking  
for applications you are looking for 'modules'
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blog+module

Oh look we are the number 6 entry for uber geek speak.  Yeah!

DRUPAL WORLD DOMINATION will not happen if we use the wrong words.    
So let's use the right words and WIN*.

Cheers,
Kieran
(P.S. Blame the Domaine grand venuer, Cotes du Rhone, it was on sale :-)

*undefined at the moment

>
> Anisa.
>
> bryan kennedy wrote:
>> On May 9, 2005, at 11:44 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:
>>
>>
>>> How about we change modules to applications.  Everywhere else on
>>> planet earth we call them applications.  It's a usability issue.
>>> Every time I talk to someone who doesn't read 50 drupal posts a day
>>> they look at me with a glazed look over their eyes when I say the
>>> word module.
>>>
>> I think that is a great idea and totally agree with you.  But, I do
>> think we should be consistent for now and write documentation for the
>> Drupal that is and not the Drupal that we want to be.  Will you
>> submit a feature request to the Development team to change the all
>> references to modules to applications.  I will be glad to put in my
>> vote.  Once/If this change is accepted then we can change them back
>> to application in the documentation.
>>
>> bryan
>>
>>
>>
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