KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Dotan Cohen]

On 09/01/2008, Martin Walshe <plasticman3327 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There really should be a movement towards better names. What the hell
> > is K3B? And what program should I burn a disk with?
> >
> > Microsoft has great names: Office for an office suit, Internet
> > Explorer for an Internet web browser, Media Player for a media player.
> > Ask someone off the street what Amarok or Firefox do, and you will get
> > a blank stare.
> >
> > K3B has to be the worst of the bunch.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
>
> K3B is such a great app though its name doesnt matter.

Er, names do matter. K3B might be a ha-ha funny name, but it does not
tell me what the program does.

> If you want the
> normal why are you on a linux distro?

Linux is not the norm? It's only for freaks and weirdos? Would you not
like Linux to be the norm?

> Anyone who uses the distros knows what
> the apps are so i dont see a problem.

I have over a dozen friends that I switched to Linux. None of them
could even guess what K3B means.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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