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On Friday 26 January 2007 18:22, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Samstag, 27. Januar 2007 00:13, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> > On Friday 26 January 2007 15:44, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> So the name is only about marketing?

either/or thinking: -1

it's about marketing. it's about making it possible for people to speak to=
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each other about in a conversation. it's about making it memorable so peopl=
e=20
can find it again easily. it's about making it easy for people to figure ou=
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what the app does.

all of these things matter, and not in some theoretical way. i hear people=
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praising or condemning applications they do (or do not) use for all of thes=
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reasons.

> > 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?

people don't refer to the general description in conversation.
and yes, many people -do- look to the name of the app for help in figuring =
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what it does.

> 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?

i didn't say that it needed to be a literal perfect description, but that=20
completely abstract names are more difficult to understand, remember and te=
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others about.

but name your app however you wish.

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Aaron J. Seigo
humru othro a kohnu se
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=46ull time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)

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