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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Kontact-Mobile? (Re: "Rebranding" KDE PIM?)
From:       Thomas Thym <ungethym () mevin ! net>
Date:       2010-09-07 15:31:04
Message-ID: AANLkTimMgt4fV4nozYKktrdgd=48OwZnraONgMhcvLZM () mail ! gmail ! com
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My favorites:
Kontact Mobile
Mail
Calendar (with "a" instead of "e")
Contacts
Tasks

2010/9/7 Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>:
> Am Donnerstag, 12. August 2010 10:59:53 schrieb Cornelius Schumacher:
> > On Thursday 12 August 2010 01:03:22 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > > Personally, I see KDE PIM more as a work group and Kontact as the
> > > product.
> > 
> > That's exactly what the KDE PIM community decided a couple of years ago.
> > Kontact is the brand for the product used in external communication. KDE
> > PIM is the name of the community creating Kontact.
> 
> Am Sonntag, 15. August 2010 21:05:10 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> > I agree that this should be communicated more intensively.
> > "Kontact" does not seem to be the coolest name a software family
> > like this could have, but it is way better than "KDE PIM", *pim or
> > *groupware in my view.
> > 
> > Now that we are close to getting Kontact-Mobile somewhere and the next
> > generation of Kontact out for Desktops (fully Akonadi ported),
> > if we wanted to rebrand Kontact or use several brands for the KDE PIM
> > applications, this would be a good opportunity.
> > (Which was pointed out to my by Till and he's right.)
> 
> So I guess it will be "Kontact-Mobile" with
> several frontends for Mail, Calender, Contacts, Tasks, Notes.
> 
> The question is "Kontact-Mobile" or "Kontact Mobile"?
> And then how to to label the frontends. Something short rules,
> so my favourite is: "Mail" for mail, but I cannot decide
> for "Events", "Organizer" or "Calender". Maybe "Calender".
> What about "Contacts" vs "Addresses"?
> Or "Tasks" vs "Todos"?
> 
> > Note that for Kontact-Mobile on N900 there actually is not going to be any
> > KDE Kontact anymore in the orginal sense as there is no overview shell
> > as a bracket for all the applications. They stand on their own, so it would
> > be something like "Kontact-Mobile Mail", "Kontact-Mobile Organizer"
> > or "Kontact-Mobile Addressbook", probably even abbreviated to "Mail",
> > "Organizer", "Addresses" or so. Given the technical possibilities of
> > Akonadi, we probably will see recognition of single application like
> > KMail and KOrgnizer erode as their functionality is distributed more
> > and more through out a KDE Desktop. This is why I guess it would be better
> > to even use one brand to strenghten all those applications under one
> > umbrella and currently "Kontact" is the best brand we have for it as far as
> > I can say.
> 
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> kde-promo@ to avoid too much cross posting.]
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