KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Billie Walsh]

John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> writes:
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>> In fact it's not just Kubuntu/KDE. It's pretty much a Linux problem. 
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> It's not a Linux thing, it's a unix thing.

I know nothing of Unix so my first experience was with Linux.

>   
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> It actually follows a pretty long history of naming programs. So you
> know, for instance screensaver is for the command line, and xscreensaver
> is for X-Window.  KDE and Gnome people just follow that naming
> convention.  
>   

I don't particularly have a problem with things like "kget" ot "gftp". I
know immediately which gui they belong to, "k" or "g", and what they do.
It's some of the just plain silly names things get that I have a problem
with. [ Read further down my original message on this thread ]

> That said, for some reason, some English speaking people has a bug up
> their ass when it comes to the letter K.  As a Norwegian speaker, the K
> letter actually is more 'normal' than the G letter. Like Kontact would
> probably be translated to Kontakt in Norwegian
>   

Back in another life I worked for a Mercedes dealer so I got an
education in some German spelling and terminology. It's been a long time
but it seems that "k" is used just about anywhere a hard "c" would be
used in English. I would assume, one should never do that, that any
language derived from the same root would have about the same rule.