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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Component Naming
From:       John Tapsell <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-07-07 12:27:05
Message-ID: CAHQ6N+piDtuku4VZ7Tb3-nsJGU0jX8p_-c8Yx5M=mkPWsLRLBg () mail ! gmail ! com
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Ditto when you share a folder, it says "Samba not installed.  [install Samba]".

No indication what Samba is etc.

John

On 7 July 2011 13:24, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday, July 1, 2011 19:19:41 Ruurd Pels wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> duh... the remark being...
>>
>>       In my travels down the Linux Path, I also developed a curiosity to explore
>>       KDE.  It is my understanding that there has been a major change within the
>>       past couple of years within KDE.  I downloaded the live DVD of Open Suse
>>       and took some time to work with it.  KDE is stunningly beautiful but
>>       complex.  It has components to it with names so out of sync with what they
>>       do, that it was difficult for me to understand their purpose within the
>>       environment.
>
> honestly, the failure here is in the user needing to ever see Akonadi as
> Akonadi. in the UI it should be consistently absent, and when the user does
> need to interact with that service it should be refered to as the "Personal
> Informaton Storage Service" or some such.
>
> this is what we have been doing with plasma for a while and nepomuk more
> recently.
>
> unfortunately, developers continue to add over time new instances of these
> terms into the UI or present the user with uninteresting informaton related to
> these services.
>
> some of us continue to try and remind the developers of this and try to fix
> these issues with patches over time ... more help in that is most welcome.
>
> --
> Aaron J. Seigo
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