Voting for the best name for the Caligra Spreadsheet Application

[Dan Jensen]

replying on my phone here, hence the odd mail layout, but i'd
appreciate an invite :)

On 11/13/11, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> On 13 November 2011 22:37, C. Boemann <cbo at boemann.dk> wrote:
>> Several of us would like a better name for the Tables Application
>>
>> Reason is that "tables" is too often misunderstood with text tables or
>> kexi
>> tables. and having to say Calligra Tables all the time or "textdocument
>> tables" or "kexi tables" are just as annoying for us speaking about these
>> things all the time. But even users might get confused.
>>
>> So at the Calligra Sprint we brainstormed about it and I've set up a
>> condorcet vote for it (including the option of keeping "Tables"). Please
>> note that this is still just a suggestion to Marijn who will make the
>> final
>> decision.
>>
>> Reply to me or to the mailing list if you would like to be able to vote,
>> I'll then send you a personal invitation.
>>
>> The voting ends in one week. So please don't waste time
>
> Hi!
> I am back home from this great Calligra Sprint already. So as one of
> those who reacted enthusiastically to the idea of rename and support
> it, I'd like to precisely mention the tale of the confusion in Kexi:
> We had "Export Table to KSpread" command in Kexi that has been renamed
> in Calligra Kexi to "Export Table to Tables" [sic!]. Then we changed
> immediately to "Export Table to Calligra Tables" which is not ideal
> too. There was more 'wrestling' with the language in our Handbook, for
> example.
> We wouldn't like to change to generic Export to Spreadsheet because 1)
> we feel that we want and have right to promote our suite's
> spreadsheet, 2) some features only work (or work best) with Calligra
> Spreadsheets because of integration advantages (yes people blame MS
> for the same ;)).
>
> --
> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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>  Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org)
>  KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org)
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