KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Dotan Cohen]

On 10/01/2008, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 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.

That may be. I'll start making sure that the K menu has the
descriptions in place. I'll also make as much as a effort as possible
to document complains of this type, and to understand them more fully.

Dotan Cohen

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