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Cluelessness
by Bruno Laturner on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @12:19

I'll go with the crowd.

I have no idea what some of these apps do, and the logos, while cute(and weird), even make me scratch my head trying to figure what are we talking about.

If you say it's a office suite, okay, I figured it out by reading KOffice, then you have KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, KChart and KFormula, I might have a little idea about what they do, I'm not so sure about the last two. Kivio sounds like Visio, so it might also be a diagramming software.
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Okay, for real, I use Krita all the time, Kexi is the "database program", Karbon 14 is the "vector graphics editor", and I've learned what KPlato and Kugar are from the news.

I'll not nitpick about the Knaming_scheme, it's been overly done, but where's the marketing team to FLOOD everyone with awareness of what KOffice 2.0 is?

I do believe it can take the 1st place for the best Open-source Office suite. On the other hand there's not much time until July if you want to have a simultaneous release with KDE 4.1.

PS: A little nitpick from my dirty mind: Kugar's logo looks like a dick. (no offense)

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Re: Cluelessness
by Boudewijn Rempt on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @13:05

Aw, a dirty mind is, famously, a joy forever. But I don't think we'll have a simultaneous release with KDE 4.1 -- there remains too much to be done before that.

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Re: Cluelessness
by Inge Wallin on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @14:45

Heh, how do you like the Krita one, then? ;-)

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Naming schemes
by T. J. Brumfield on Friday 18/Apr/2008, @19:03

Very few apps have names that immediately spell out what they are. Photoshop and Word being great examples of the exceptions, but what does Nero do, or Napster? Everyone knows, yet people insist that the only way people will understand a program's name is if it plainly describes what the software does.

Did people know what Google meant? Today it is a verb for searching. Pick a name you like, and then establish the identity of that name with a great app.

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Re: Naming schemes
by 138 on Saturday 19/Apr/2008, @02:56

>what does Nero do

Burns rom(e). :)

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Re: Naming schemes
by Tim on Thursday 24/Apr/2008, @12:19

That's always been one of my favorite software puns. Someone was thinking way too hard when they came up with that name. And the old Colosseum on Fire icon was excellent too.

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