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[C. Boemann]

On Monday 21 November 2011 14:47:54 Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> On 11/21/2011 11:55 AM, C. Boemann wrote:
> > On Monday 21 November 2011 08:27:10 Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> >> On 11/21/2011 04:36 AM, Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> >>>> It also reveals the names (for those that weren't at the sprint). And
> >>>> yes some were made as a joke, but in all fairness all proposed names
> >>>> were brought to the vote.
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 1. Abacus  (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)
> >>> 
> >>> Even if it won the competition it is a bad choice as there is already a
> >>> spreadsheet application out there with this name. See
> >>> http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html
> >> 
> >> I agree. The sucks. Also the list of names is so bad that I don't wonder
> >> it wins. Even more worse now we destroyed the nice idea the brand and
> >> the app names had :-(
> > 
> > Uhm what did we do that destroyed some idea. Could you provide a link or
> > anything?
> 
> To be more productive on this one;
> As far as I remember the idea was to establish one common brand: Calligra.
> That means the application-names themself should not be used
> "stand-alone" like they where before. So, it's Calligra Words and not
> KWord, it's Calligra Stage and not KPresenter and it's Calligra Tables
> and not KSpread/Abascus.
> This was iirc in the spirit of OpenOffice and Apple which choose both
> rather common names like Writer, Numbers, etc. and market them with
> there common brand OpenOffice/iWork/etc.
> 
> Now to the source: seems I am not able to find it in our
> mailinglist-archieve. Does maybe someone else remember the discussion
> back then and has an idea where it took place?
Oh another misunderstanding then:

the choices were all meant to still have Calligra in front obviously

So "Calligra Abacus"