KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> KDE names have merit (googlability, for instance) however for the
> newbie they are a pain. There are workarounds (such as displaying the
> description as well as the name) but they come at a price. The wife is
> waiting, and I cannot elaborate fully, but I think that you get the
> idea.

Well, I really _don't_ get the idea.  If you work from the menu, use the
descriptions.  If you work from the command line, you need to know the
names.  If you do both, it's worthwhile to put them both in the menu so
that you can make the connection, but not really necessary.

The Windows user doesn't even _know_ the name of the program they execute. 
When they open Word, they never find out that the program is named
winword - so they have _no_ option to access it in the command line.  KDE
programs are better behaved and when I open a KDE program it will generally
show me the program name in the title bar, and _always_ in the About.  Word
won't even show me that name in the About.

I think what this really comes down to is a user complaint that being told
the real name of the program is confusing.
-- 
derek