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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KSysGuard renaming
From:       Greg Martyn <greg.martyn () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-06-06 21:28:33
Message-ID: 200606061728.33818.greg () localhost ! localdomain
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On Tuesday 06 June 2006 1:40 pm, Sean O'Brien wrote:
> As far as naming is concerned, Gnome's scheme is cleaner and easier to figure 
> out than KDE's (for its core apps).  Sometimes I do cringe after reading the 
> name of a KDE app because of the K prefix/suffix (who the hell wants to 
> type "amaroK instead of "amarok"?).  However, the "K" prefix/suffix seems to 
> be used more frequently by KDE developers than Gnome developers use a 
> prefix "G" or the word "gnome"; I can tell that Kid3 or Kbilliards, for 
> example, are written for KDE.
> 
> Why not stay consistent and call it "ksysmonitor" or "ksysmon", if the 
> word "guard" is a problem?


I'll do that. I just thought that this was a perfect opportunity to move to, as you
call it, a cleaner and easier to figure out naming system.

greg
 
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