Change "Preferences" to "Settings" in documentation #1323
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In macOS 13 Ventura, the general terminology of "Preferences" has been renamed to "Settings". The main menu's "Preferences…" item is automatically renamed to "Settings…" by the OS when building against the macOS 13 SDK, but we still need to update documentation to match.
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Would it break backward compatibility with older macOS versions? |
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I don't see why it would. It's documentation only. |
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Did menu name change on a previous macOS if you build on a newer one? |
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The OS will automatically change it to "Settings…" in macOS 13, but it will still say "Preferences…" in macOS 12. |
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So for the users who didn't upgrade the system, documentation will be at least confusing |
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Yes, and that will be a little annoying. But I don't think it's worth our time to maintain multiple versions of the documentation, and it's not useful to slap "Settings / Preferences" everywhere in the documentation. Given the choice between documenting the new and up-to-date versus the old terminology, we pick the new one. Sucks for users of older OS versions but honestly at this point I would hope they know what Preferences is as they would have been using macOS for a while. I can add a clarification at one spot (the beginning of "3. Settings") but otherwise it will say Settings everywhere. |
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I agree with you about maintenance. A little word on system differences will be sufficient |
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In macOS 13 Ventura, the general terminology of "Preferences" has been renamed to "Settings". The main menu's "Preferences…" item is automatically renamed to "Settings…" by the OS when building against the macOS 13 SDK, but we still need to update documentation to match.