Voting for the best name for the Caligra Spreadsheet Application

[Sebastian Sauer]

On 11/14/2011 05:27 AM, Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> 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.

+1

> 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.

I also would prefer to just have the list of names here and then talk in
the open. Personally I don't have an opinion on that but would like to
vote against more ugly names like KCells or
KDoYourSpreadsheetApplication or whatever options are there.

Also it would allow to make own suggestions which sound for me
like a good idea. Also in the spirit of how the Calligra name was
chosen.

> 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.

+1
I also would like to hear Mek's opinion on that first. I mean before
wasting time choosing something cool just to note that it's
not going to happen anyways.

> 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.

+0 means I have not really an opnion on that but would probably
form one once I see the suggestions for alternate (maybe way better)
names.

> 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.

+99 on that :-)