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I gave my friend, a very educated young lass, a live CD of Kubuntu as
she was wanting me to downgrade her Vista laptop to XP and I thought it
was my civic duty to show her another option. I said "Play around with
it for a day and see if it does what you want" which, after some
convincing, she did.

When I returned she said she wanted XP because Kubuntu was illogical
(which of course fried my brain since I find it 100% _more_ intuitive
than most other OSs) so I pressed her to list the things that caused her
to say that. They were:

1/ The font names were all different (Okay, can't help that one but I'm
sure we could work through relearning that little pest) AND

2/ Things had stupid names (i.e. Kontact, Konquerer, Kolf etc...)

It got me thinking...that is one of the things that first annoyed me
about KDE, that it is _cool_ to name your program starting with a "K". I
realise that it serves a small purpose (identifying KDE vs Gnome
programs and ducking TM issues) but surely to anyone trying to MOVE to
Kubuntu, it would look a bit...immature (like putting "z" on the end of
words to make you 1337). It just feels like and in-joke that needs to
die if KDE wants to be taken even more seriously.

Does anyone else see this as a bit of a marketing blunder and is there
_any_ community push to change this? Surely good names like Amarok,
Rosegarden and Bluefish aren't that hard to come up with...they
certainly make a better first impression on people new to KDE/Linux.

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I agree it does kind of get annoying but it does help to easily identify between desktops.* However KDE is not the only one who does this i have seen alot of programs starting with G for gnome as well.


On Jan 8, 2008 4:25 PM, WANSTALL Malcolm <malcolm.wanstall@cnh.com> wrote:

I gave my friend, a very educated young lass, a live CD of Kubuntu as
she was wanting me to downgrade her Vista laptop to XP and I thought it
was my civic duty to show her another option. I said "Play around with

it for a day and see if it does what you want" which, after some
convincing, she did.

When I returned she said she wanted XP because Kubuntu was illogical
(which of course fried my brain since I find it 100% _more_ intuitive

than most other OSs) so I pressed her to list the things that caused her
to say that. They were:

1/ The font names were all different (Okay, can't help that one but I'm
sure we could work through relearning that little pest) AND


2/ Things had stupid names (i.e. Kontact, Konquerer, Kolf etc...)

It got me thinking...that is one of the things that first annoyed me
about KDE, that it is _cool_ to name your program starting with a "K". I

realise that it serves a small purpose (identifying KDE vs Gnome
programs and ducking TM issues) but surely to anyone trying to MOVE to
Kubuntu, it would look a bit...immature (like putting "z" on the end of

words to make you 1337). It just feels like and in-joke that needs to
die if KDE wants to be taken even more seriously.

Does anyone else see this as a bit of a marketing blunder and is there
_any_ community push to change this? Surely good names like Amarok,

Rosegarden and Bluefish aren't that hard to come up with...they
certainly make a better first impression on people new to KDE/Linux.

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On Jan 8, 2008 10:25 PM, WANSTALL Malcolm <malcolm.wanstall@cnh.com> wrote:

<snip>

Does anyone else see this as a bit of a marketing blunder and is there
_any_ community push to change this? Surely good names like Amarok,
Rosegarden and Bluefish aren't that hard to come up with...they

certainly make a better first impression on people new to KDE/Linux.


I do so your point to a certain extent but to me the program name doesnt matter much. It could be called monkeyblowfishspoonapple as long as it worked im happy.

Also it serves to distinguish between aps for kde and aps for gnome very quick

Marty.

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On 09/01/2008, at 9:25 AM, WANSTALL Malcolm wrote:

Does anyone else see this as a bit of a marketing blunder and is there
_any_ community push to change this? Surely good names like Amarok,
Rosegarden and Bluefish aren't that hard to come up with...they
certainly make a better first impression on people new to KDE/Linux.


One of the most popular KDE applications, that is actually installed
on many Gnome desktops too, is "Amarok". It's a media player al la
"iTunes" and extremely good at what it does. In many ways (even as a
Mac user[1]) I still prefer Amarok over iTunes :P


But I agree, the incessant naming everything with a "K" is starting to
wear thin, the same as Apple sticking "i" in front of everything
(we're over it....move on Steve!). I don't have a problem if the KDE
project wants to name their core applications, like Kontact, Koffice,
etc, with a "K" to identify them as kore (pun intended) but the third
party developers (like me) need to get a little more imaginative with
their naming schemes.


Cheers,

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On Tuesday 08 January 2008 22:25:22 WANSTALL Malcolm wrote:
> 1/ The font names were all different (Okay, can't help that one but I'm
> sure we could work through relearning that little pest) AND

That one's easy.

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Rosie


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On 09/01/2008, WANSTALL Malcolm <malcolm.wanstall@cnh.com> wrote:
> I gave my friend, a very educated young lass, a live CD of Kubuntu as
> she was wanting me to downgrade her Vista laptop to XP and I thought it
> was my civic duty to show her another option. I said "Play around with
> it for a day and see if it does what you want" which, after some
> convincing, she did.
>
> When I returned she said she wanted XP because Kubuntu was illogical
> (which of course fried my brain since I find it 100% _more_ intuitive
> than most other OSs) so I pressed her to list the things that caused her
> to say that. They were:
>
> 1/ The font names were all different (Okay, can't help that one but I'm
> sure we could work through relearning that little pest) AND
>
> 2/ Things had stupid names (i.e. Kontact, Konquerer, Kolf etc...)
>
> It got me thinking...that is one of the things that first annoyed me
> about KDE, that it is _cool_ to name your program starting with a "K". I
> realise that it serves a small purpose (identifying KDE vs Gnome
> programs and ducking TM issues) but surely to anyone trying to MOVE to
> Kubuntu, it would look a bit...immature (like putting "z" on the end of
> words to make you 1337). It just feels like and in-joke that needs to
> die if KDE wants to be taken even more seriously.
>
> Does anyone else see this as a bit of a marketing blunder and is there
> _any_ community push to change this? Surely good names like Amarok,
> Rosegarden and Bluefish aren't that hard to come up with...they
> certainly make a better first impression on people new to KDE/Linux.

There really should be a movement towards better names. What the hell
is K3B? And what program should I burn a disk with?

Microsoft has great names: Office for an office suit, Internet
Explorer for an Internet web browser, Media Player for a media player.
Ask someone off the street what Amarok or Firefox do, and you will get
a blank stare.

K3B has to be the worst of the bunch.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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There really should be a movement towards better names. What the hell

is K3B? And what program should I burn a disk with?

Microsoft has great names: Office for an office suit, Internet
Explorer for an Internet web browser, Media Player for a media player.
Ask someone off the street what Amarok or Firefox do, and you will get

a blank stare.

K3B has to be the worst of the bunch.

Dotan Cohen
K3B is such a great app though its name doesnt matter. If you want the normal why are you on a linux distro? Anyone who uses the distros knows what the apps are so i dont see a problem.



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Hey Guy's and Gal's,

On Jan 8, 2008 6:36 PM, Martin Walshe <plasticman3327@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > There really should be a movement towards better names. What the hell
> > is K3B? And what program should I burn a disk with?
> >
> > Microsoft has great names: Office for an office suit, Internet
> > Explorer for an Internet web browser, Media Player for a media player.
> > Ask someone off the street what Amarok or Firefox do, and you will get
> > a blank stare.
> >
> > K3B has to be the worst of the bunch.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
>
> K3B is such a great app though its name doesnt matter. If you want the
> normal why are you on a linux distro? Anyone who uses the distros knows what
> the apps are so i dont see a problem.

You know you can always change the name of the application to whatever
you want. That's what the mv command is all about<g>

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WANSTALL Malcolm wrote:
> 2/ Things had stupid names (i.e. Kontact, Konquerer, Kolf etc...)


Winamp
WinSCP
winword
winrar
winmine
win.com (yup... windows/system32 in winxp)


c'mon, would you just configure your kde correctly and end this subject
already or would you like me to start talking about
iHaveAPattentForThatBeforeYou and iLLSueYou too?


Regards,
Norberto

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Norberto Bensa wrote:
>>WANSTALL Malcolm wrote:
>> 2/ Things had stupid names (i.e. Kontact, Konquerer, Kolf etc...)
>
>c'mon, would you just configure your kde correctly and end this
>subject
>already or would you like me to start talking about
>iHaveAPattentForThatBeforeYou and iLLSueYou too?
>Regards,
>Norberto

If you'd actually bothered to _read_ the entire email it wasn't _me_
personally complaining.

Simply put, a _potential_ user saw an incredibly minor aesthetic issue
and it turned her off using the entire system (what a shame). Spouting
out a list of WinXP programs (winword is the executable not the program
name, the only others that ring a bell being WinRar, a utility and
WinAmp, a now considerably unpopular [to what it used to be] media
player) isn't addressing what IS an issue. My argument still stands,
adding "Win" to the front of a program seems to identify it to Windows,
misspelling a work with "K" on the front to someone not familiar with
KDE looks like just that, a misspelling.

I hope all minor criticisms aren't met with such dismissal, it just
seems arrogant. I accept that it may not be something that will ever be
changed but cutting off feedback from a missed user is a terribly silly
thing to do! Everyone was a KDE newbie at one stage.

-Mal

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