I agree it does kind of get annoying but it does help to easily identify between desktops. However KDE is not the only one who does this i have seen alot of programs starting with G for gnome as well. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Jan 8, 2008 4:25 PM, WANSTALL Malcolm <<a href="mailto:malcolm.wanstall@cnh.com">malcolm.wanstall@cnh.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I gave my friend, a very educated young lass, a live CD of Kubuntu as she was wanting me to downgrade her Vista laptop to XP and I thought it was my civic duty to show her another option. I said "Play around with it for a day and see if it does what you want" which, after some convincing, she did. When I returned she said she wanted XP because Kubuntu was illogical (which of course fried my brain since I find it 100% _more_ intuitive than most other OSs) so I pressed her to list the things that caused her to say that. They were: 1/ The font names were all different (Okay, can't help that one but I'm sure we could work through relearning that little pest) AND 2/ Things had stupid names (i.e. Kontact, Konquerer, Kolf etc...) It got me thinking...that is one of the things that first annoyed me about KDE, that it is _cool_ to name your program starting with a "K". I realise that it serves a small purpose (identifying KDE vs Gnome programs and ducking TM issues) but surely to anyone trying to MOVE to Kubuntu, it would look a bit...immature (like putting "z" on the end of words to make you 1337). It just feels like and in-joke that needs to die if KDE wants to be taken even more seriously. Does anyone else see this as a bit of a marketing blunder and is there _any_ community push to change this? Surely good names like Amarok, Rosegarden and Bluefish aren't that hard to come up with...they certainly make a better first impression on people new to KDE/Linux. -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>