From kde-core-devel Sat Jul 23 19:43:16 2011 From: Lorenz Quack Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:43:16 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" Message-Id: <4E2B2454.9080107 () amberfisharts ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131149562619538 Hi, I am non-partisan user of both GNOME and KDE and wanted to add my my humble two cents. I belive that picking a generic name such as "System Settings" for such a common place application and then claiming unique ownership of that name is a bit brazen. On the other hand now that we have this conflict on our hands I think the GNOME community should back of the name for this release and try to resolve this conflict in an bilaterale way everyone can live with. So how can this be resolved? From an users perspective I do not want two different control centers/system settings applications. One should be enough! So If the too comunities could agree on a way to provide interoperability so that the apps are merely frontends to the same underlying settings infrastructre this problem would be really only about nameing issues and the user would be a happy one. I realize that this might be harder to do than it is said but isn't a good user experience what devs in both communities should be striving for? TLDR: For this release: GNOME back off For the next release: KDE and GNOME unify your settings infrastructure and pick non-generic names for your apps. Keep up the good work and have respect for each others great work! //Lorenz (a thankful user)