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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Captions in KDE
From:       Cristian Tibirna <tibirna () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-10-28 14:34:35
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On Saturday 28 October 2000 10:14, Matthias Ettrich wrote:

[cut excellent plead that I 99% agree with]

> And that is wrong, totally wrong. Nobody wants to read KEdit in the
> caption. If the user uses KEdit as Editor, having the name "Editor" in
> there is just fine.

Excellent example. 

> The classic example is KMail. Do you believe a user who uses KMail also
> uses another graphical mail client at the same time? I don't think so.
> So why not simply show "Mail" in the caption, isntead of "KMail"?
> The purpose of the caption is not to do advertisement , but to help the
> users associating taskbar entries with windows. If we could get rid of the
> bogus Ks in the captions, we would present our users a much more integrated
> usage experience.

This one too. Yet, I can argue here that I really want the user to know he 
use KMail. Because KMail starts to be one of the best mailers around. I read 
its line like "Key Mailer"...

And the classic counter-example would be KNode. Would we call it Node? News 
Reader (*shudder*)?

So, this seems to bring up a different, more complex perspective IMHO.

And to confuse things even more, Konsole has another KNode-like name, IMO, 
yet the question "what's Konsole? It's spelled wrong!" came much too often 
from my experimental pets (sorry, my lab mates :-).

Once again, I mostly agree with your view. Perhaps that instead a long 
discussion (this tends to be the result lately on the lists), I should start 
build an inventory of confusing situations and then we try to come up with a 
solution that would spouse the most of them.

CT

P.S. Yes, Kristian finds it very unfortunate that we insisted in usink k 
names all over the kde kode.

Look at these:
KMail    = Marconi
Konsole = Beretta
KSCD   = JuiceBox
Kcontrol = Bismark
KDevelop = Jacqart
KWord = Stylus
KSpread = Napier
KPresenter = Theater
...

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