KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Dotan Cohen]

On 14/01/2008, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> I HATE when people say threads should be ended.  Who are you to judge?  This
> _is_ a valuable thread, and I'm stunned at the number of people who think
> it's a pointless argument.
>
> Specifically we've argued about whether k3b is a useful name.  I think,
> though Dotan decided to make personal attacks, that he has a valid point -
> and I think I was right that it's cultural.

No, please, that was not a personal attack! Merely a bad choice of
words on my point.

> As far as I'm concerned - and
> I think it goes for anyone raised with the Anglo- advertising
> consciousness - a brand name is _built_, and we come to connect the brand
> with the product.  How the name is chosen isn't important.  Dotan needs
> names to actually have intrinsic meaning.  That makes no sense to _me_, but
> if people really need that, we need to consider it.  I'm not sure people
> _do_ generally need that - even in Israel, I imagine there are many
> products sold that have names with no intrinsic connection to the product.
> otoh, in Portugal last spring, I noticed products with identical branding
> as in North America _except_ for the name ("Tide" comes to mind), so
> perhaps they were renaming them to make more sense in the culture.

That's why the Chevy "Nova" was not called "Nova" in South America.
"No va" means "doesn't go" in Spanish, so far as I've been told. And
"Coca-Cola" is "Goka-Kola" or something similar in China, so that the
meaning will be "happiness in the mouth" instead of "frog in the
mouth". "Amkor" refrigerators did not sell very well in Turkey, from
what I understand, as "Am" is mother, and "kor" is a part of her that
is not very nice to say in public.

Dotan Cohen

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