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Re: If you don't like K's
by Stefan Heimers on Sunday 28/Apr/2002, @00:57

They know why they renamed the programs! Not, because the letter K in particular was offensive, but people who don`t know KDE usually find it strange when programnames start with a letter that does not really belong to the words used in the names.

I keep getting asked "what`s this K for?". It`s probably a benefit for the whole KDE which becomes well known this way, but it`s not making the program names attractive. In fact it makes them hard to pronounce and look unfamiliar to novices.

It would already be nicer if the K was somehow separated, like k-word or k-presenter, so people see it is just word or presenter, but a special version called k-*.

Stefan

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Re: If you don't like K's
by Juln on Sunday 28/Apr/2002, @20:54

Probably the slickest way to do that would be with capitalization, like kWord, kPresenter, ...er .. kCookiejar?

I'm way leery of this 'Lindows' thing.

I feel that if any 'clutter' was to be reworked in KDE, maybe reorganizing the parts of kControl, and combining and refining some of them.

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Re: If you don't like K's
by Syllten on Monday 29/Apr/2002, @06:42

How about KDE Word, KDE Presenter
A well-known big company solved it easy.
MS Word

The program is word, but it comes from the KDE project instead of MS...
Just my ?0.02

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