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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Captions in KDE
From:       Matthias Elter <me () ns ! caldera ! de>
Date:       2000-10-29 9:57:46
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On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 11:59:01AM +0200, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> 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 "Pr?sentationsprogramm" 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.

KControl does not set standard but sensible captions like: "KDE Control Center - \
[Country & Language]" and I think Matthias is right that other base applications like \
kfind -and I would even go as far as calling kmail a base application- should do \
that, too.

Bye,
Matthias


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