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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Captions in KDE
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       2000-10-29 11:18:24
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, 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 "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.

Yes, those are utilities (someone with a Windows or Mac background would
probably call them "part of the OS").

The KNames are fine for binaries, but suck as "brand names". If I could
think of a better name for ksysv, I would already have renamed it. Then
again, "SysV-Init Editor" probably is not so bad, there just aren't as
many as there are text editors or ICQ clients *g*

Generally, the "<doc name> - <app name>" concept should stay!

regards,
Peter

PS: I think we need to try to follow the styleguide more. No big mistakes,
but almost no app completely follows the styleguide, there are always a
lot of small inconsistencies... or maybe just different interpretations of
it.

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