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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Article about Baloo
From:       David Edmundson <david () davidedmundson ! co ! uk>
Date:       2014-02-18 13:59:54
Message-ID: CAGeFrHCY_zNJhr4DmE8VVAmR5P=tNpYiof=XSjkXJZLNVVxwYw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, February 17, 2014 20:42:42 Carl Symons wrote:
> > On 02/17/2014 05:03 PM, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > > On Monday 17 February 2014 23:29:47 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > > Let's not go there, the decision for the name was taken a long time ago.

> Honestly, this rename should never have happened in the first place. The cost
> to KDE is significant in terms of throwing away prior public communication and
> the introduction of confusion. (This confusion is visible all over social
> media right now..)
> 
> In this case the developer actually went back on their word to not make the
> new name a publicly visible brand, which has compounded the issue because,
> since I trusted their word on this, there was little advance work done to head
> off the obvious fallout that would ensue, such as seen today on Phoronix.
> 
You need a name in order to build a community round something.
Otherwise things get very confusing. Baloo needs a community. This is
akin to the name Sonnet or Phonon.

The term "baloo" does not appear in the UI anywhere, which is what the
developer agreed to.
Users won't see anything.

David

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