Name Change

M Breugelmans mbr.nxi at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 13:26:35 UTC 2008


On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:09 AM, David Nolden <zwabel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys! I know we've had the same discussion about a year ago, but looking at
> the comments to my last blog-post, I do believe now that we need a
> name-change.
>
> The problem:
> - People tend to measure KDevelop4 based on KDevelop3, although it's a
> actually completely new app. This means that people who found KDevelop3 too
> complicated won't try KDevelop4 as well.
> - People who did like KDevelop3 will expect the same functionality in
> KDevelop4, which he most probably is not going to get.
>
> I don't think this is a pressing issue right now, but it might make sense to
> consider this before our first stable release.
>
> Greetings, David
>

+1

I'm pretty tired of the '4' + K as well. A sexy new name indicates
that it's not just more of the same but a fresh, groundbreaking IDE
(which it is).


Manuel




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