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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Any new name suggestions for Kant ?
From:       Dave Leigh <dave.leigh () cratchit ! org>
Date:       2001-03-31 2:32:27
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On Friday 30 March 2001 17:03, Phlip wrote:
> Kant Krew:
>
> Here's why I like KAuthor.
>
> All the names of editors historically have described some technical or
> trivial aspect of their behaviors.
>
>     Edit - word based on the idea of cut-n-paste. Don't name an app after
> one of its menus.
>
>     Word - short for "Word Processor". MS names their apps after industry
> jargon to appear Official
>
>     Text - based on the technical detail that an editor displays lists of
> code points from a symbol table
>
> These all suck.
>
> When you use an editor, your >intent< is to Author something. All those
> other words are side-effects of the way computers currently enable that
> intent. We must focus on the intent itself.
>
> "Author" sounds authoritative.

Except that, as a verb, "author" means "to be the author of".  "To author" 
something sounds a bit tortured.  Really not the sort of grammar an author 
would use.

(BTW, most of the time your intent is not necessarily "to author" anything.  
Most text editing is just that... editing existing scripts code, documents, 
etc.  Even when generating something totally new, the majority of your time 
is spent editing, not creating)

Personally, I like "ked"

-- 
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
		-- La Rochefoucauld
 
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