KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Norberto Bensa]

Quoting WANSTALL Malcolm <malcolm.wanstall at cnh.com>:

> Norberto Bensa wrote:
>> Microsoft Word. It doesn't mean anything to me.
>
> I beg to differ, Microsoft Word _does_ mean something to you, as a   
> branded product. You know _exactly_ what it does because of the   
> amount of money behind the brand and all kinds of advertising.

No no no and no.

I know what Word does because I used it.

Someone mentioned K3b. I know what K3b does because I used it. And  
because in my "K" menu it's called "CD & DVD burning (k3b)" You don't  
type it's name in a terminal anymore and you don't actually need to  
know how it is called.

In my particular case, money has nothing to do with a successful  
application. You make a good application, I use it. (and NO Word is  
not a good application. It's bloated. But it's what everybody else  
uses in the Windows world)

And BTW, do you know why is it called Microsoft Word? Do you remember  
Word Perfect? Wordstar? Microsoft took the name of well established  
products and then they'll sue you if you used "Word" to refer to a  
word processor application. That's why we don't have "OpenOffice Word"  
but "OpenOffice Write." And I think Writer is a much better name than  
Word: "this is what you use to _write_ something..."

You say you don't have a problem with core applications, but when you  
started this thread you mentioned Konqueror and Kontact... Then, what  
are the 3rd party applications that you are referring to?

Regards,
Norberto



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