Am Samstag, 27. Januar 2007 00:13, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 15:44, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > So Ubuntu, SUSE, RedHat, Gentoo, Mandrake really hurt?
>
> those are operating systems, not applications and the use case is therefore
> completely different
>
> (and aside from Red Hat, yes, they all suffer from a lack of name
> recognition; SUSE is fixing this ...)

So the name is only about marketing?

> > > kimdaba used to be a favourite example of mine, but they fixed that:
> > > now it's kphotoalbum. much better.
> >
> > But claims a pretty general term. How to name another one? KPhotoalbum 2?
>
> digikam.

Is that the device driver for my camera? ;)

> > > look at gnomemeeting which is now ekiga for an example in the reverse
> > > direction.
> >
> > GnomeMeeting only worked for those who know MS NetMeeting, or?
>
> it also works for anyone who knows what the word "meeting" means. ekiga
> helps exactly no one and because there's no mnemonic relationship, it
> doesn't make it very easy to remember. using apps on linux is often like
> learning a whole new language because we don't leverage the words people
> are used to using.

But isn't this where the general description used in the menu comes in? When 
going for a program in the menu I personally don't guess by the name, but 
read the description. People seem to have no problem to use this approach for 
cars, for persons, for soaps, why should it be different with programs?

So really, the question is: Where is the design of a name of interest that it 
should be of a mnemonic character?

> (and yes, that's fairly english-centric) 

Indeed. :)

Good night
Friedrich
 
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