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I want a master cheatsheet for gnome commands too. These are some of the commands I needed to memorize when working with gnome:

nautilus <-> File Manager

evince <-> Document Viewer

eog <-> Image viewer

baobab <-> Disk Usage Analyzer

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Tbh KDE is worse at this because at least when you are using Gnome it won't call Nautilus Nautilus. It will call it Files, unlike on Plasma where Dolphin will be called Dolphin instead of being called Files or File Manager, which means that people who don't know Dolphin is the file manager will just be really confused as to what Dolphin is, especially if they don't already know that this icon always means file manager no matter what 0S you're on. Linus actually had this issue when he couldn't figure out what Kate was because he saw Kate and he thought what's Kate. Whereas on Gnome it would just say Text Editor instead of gedit. If you are using the terminal, you are more likely to know the actual name of the program so that's less bad for me. And on KDE if you are opening graphical applications through the console, you still have to open them through their weird code names. For example, Dolphin which makes no sense whatsoever. Just the same as Nautilus makes no sense whatsoever so that arguement is somewhat disingenuous.

For me, I use evolution for email, which uses the GNOME keyring and I couldn't for the life of me figure out that I needed to install seahorse to manage it.

Of course I'm not even remotely in their targeted user base since I don't run GNOME, but it annoyed me nonetheless.

That I will agree makes no sense whatsoever but usually that would be installed by default through the dependency list in your package manager. Dunno why it wasn't.

Hmm mac os does this too (and tbh explaining to noobs that files are in the "Finder" gets perplexed stares, same with "Preview" for viewing pdfs?!?) "Explorer" isn't much better ...

However I can at least remember "Finder", "Preview" whereas I can never remember "eog" and have to look in old shell scripts to find out. Worst name ever with no way to discover it.

I can't remember what Eye of Gnome is called in the shell, but it's probably something like Photo Viewer. I agree which you that Mac OS and Windows do this as well, but Windows at least calls it File Explorer, instead of just Explorer, at least on the graphical side. I think that Gnome and maybe also Pantheon do this best, with descriptive names that help new users, with code names that are used in the terminal, I suppose to differentiate between maybe Dolphin and Nautilus if someone has both installed.

If you are using the application menu, this is now fixed; there is a description next to items, and typing in the search includes searching in the menu; when I search for "editor" it shows emacs, vim, and ecrire (along with a couple other non text editor programs like "palette editor". Searching for "text editor' shows just the text editors; I don't have kate installed, but I assume it would show up here if it were.

Similarly dolphin shows "File Manager" next to it, and when I to search for "file manager" it is right at the top of the list.

I wouldn't have said this is really fixed, I think this is more of a workaround because KDE doesn't want to lose the names of their software. I think that an approach similar to Gnome's should be taken, where it has Files or Text Editor as the main name but if I search for nautilus or gnome-text-editor (or gedit) it will show the correct result. I do agree that it is better than nothing however.

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