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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Extensions and Plugins
From:       Kevin Ottens <ervin () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-05-19 6:32:45
Message-ID: 200805190832.45683.ervin () kde ! org
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Le Monday 19 May 2008, Rafael Fernández López a écrit :
> > I personally don't see a need to force it to make it uniform. Just pick
> > the one that fits best.
>
> Not only for translation easiness, but because it would be great to use the
> same term everywhere.

And I'm actually not sure it'd be for the better (by turning it into 
a "Plugins vs Extensions"). Technically, plugins are a particular kind of 
extensions so such a subsumption would introduce more fuzziness to the matter 
than necessary. Of course, that's a technical fuziness, which doesn't really 
matter to the user. What really matters to user is the impact this thing will 
have on the application behavior (will it add a new feature? will it modify a 
lot the behavior of the application? will it change its look?). I guess that 
in order to get a better terminology that's the angle we should look at it, 
not blindly give them all the same name.

That was my 0.02€.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."

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