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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Captions in KDE
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-10-29 9:59:01
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Saturday 28 October 2000 16:43 wrote Nikolas Zimmermann:
> On Saturday 28 October 2000 16:14, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't think so. Look if we would call a programm "ICQ Client", the user
> would say i'm using "ICQ Client" and that would be... bad, cause
> we have for example three icq clients kicq, kxicq, klicq if not even more.
>
> Another reason is we don't have to translate captions then: ie. KPresenter
> in German "Präsentationsprogramm" in english "Diapresenter" (? i dunno)
> why not simply use KPresenter - simple and nice.

There's definitely a line to draw. For the base applications like KControl, 
KFind, the K-Name is a bit stupid.

Matthias

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