KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Dotan Cohen]

On 09/01/2008, Norberto Bensa <nbensa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quoting WANSTALL Malcolm <malcolm.wanstall at cnh.com>:
>
> > Simply put, a _potential_ user saw an incredibly minor aesthetic issue...
>
> I guess that very same user had no problem with WINsomething and
> iSomething. I don't see why Gsomething and Ksomething is a problem for
> him/her.
>
> And no. It was not an attack on you. I'm sorry very much if you took
> that way. I'm subscribed to many MLs (Gentoo, Kubuntu, KDE*) and this
> topic comes every now and then (more often than I'd like) and I would
> like it to die already. K* and G* is an easy way to know which
> environment does the application run (which libraries do you need, etc.)

Then call it Kburn instead of K3B. There is no problem with the K, as
you well know, it's the rest of the name that is difficult.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?