Voting for the best name for the Caligra Spreadsheet Application

[Thorsten Zachmann]

On Sunday, November 13, 2011 21:37:18 C. Boemann 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.

I think the vote should be public to everyone in the community and not secrete 
as it seems to be now. That makes it much easier to get people to comment and 
vote. When I look at my experience organising the sprint and asking peopole to 
do something it is very hard even for simple things like updating a wiki page 
and it needs pushing to get that done. So if first a mail to you needs to be 
send to let people vote that that might be a to big barrier to get people to 
vote. In my feeling we should also have a discussion about the names before we 
decide on anything as otherwise we might want to rename it again in another 6 
month as some new arguments against a new name will come up.

Did some new names come up at the sprint? If so what are those? There where 
quite some people that noted changing the name again is not something we 
should take lightly. Doing so now will introduce quite some new strings for 
translators which need to be translated for the release. 

That all said I'm personally against changing the name again. We had a 
disussion about it and thought about a new name and Calligra Tables is what we 
got as a result. Personally I don't see a problem with the name either it is 
easy to say Calligra Tables and everything is quite clear. For the export of 
what Jaroslaw said I think it would make sense to make the export mor generic 
and say "Export to OpenDocument Spreadsheet" as that is what it does. It does 
not export it to Calligra Tables. Also I don't think there is a to big 
misunderstanding when you talk about tables in words that people will think 
you are talking about Calligra Tables. 

Thorsten