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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Some random notes about KOrg Docs
From:       Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date:       2005-06-29 14:23:20
Message-ID: 200506291623.20565.reinhold () kainhofer ! com
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On Wednesday 29 June 2005 15:08, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 05:53 am, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 07:49, Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 28 June 2005 13:16, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > > BTW, they also like "task"
> > > > better than "to-do", but we simply never took to time to rename.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I checked the list archives. People even voted, but nobody
> > > changed it.
> > >
> > > OK, I did :)
> >
> > Great! If noone else has any objections to renaming to-dos to tasks (and
> > sub-to-dos to subtasks), I'm fine with it.
>
> I object, mildy.  On the following grounds:
>  1. people refer to their "to-do lists" and not their "task lists" (at
> least in the USA) 

We had a short discussion a while back:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim&m=109533394005439&w=2
Also note that evolution and outlook use "task", Apple's iCal uses "to-do".

> 2. karm is a "task tracker".  I don't think of to-dos as 
> work you need to keep track of time for if korg starts talking about tasks,
> will users expect tighter integration between karm and korg (maybe they
> should expect that?) 

KArm uses korganizer's to-do list part ;-)

> 3. why go through all the work to change?  will we 
> need to change all the code comments and classes too?

No, of course we won't change the class names, just the i18n strings (which is 
included in Carlos' patch already).

Cheers,
Reinhold

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