Rename Coffice?

Inge Wallin inge at lysator.liu.se
Mon Mar 25 12:21:05 GMT 2013


On Monday, March 25, 2013 12:16:57 Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> 2013/3/25 Sebastian Sauer <mail at dipe.org>:
> > On 03/25/2013 12:32 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> >> hi, congrats for publicity but i'm suggesting not introducing
> >> redundant brands extra that sound like a fork,
> > 
> > Redundant as in Coffice contains already a C==Calligra? Yes, well. That
> > name refers also to my preference for coffee & cola while hacking:
> > http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=coffice :) Also redundancy
> > is something rather common in FLOSS. May it be in Calligra's code (just
> > look my last review-request, but yes, its way better today then it was
> > years ago), in naming (acronyms, redundancy, jokes - hello libkok :).
> > 
> > Anyhow. If that's somehow a problem would renaming solve it? And if yes,
> > what's a better name to show its just another flavor of Calligra just like
> > Calligra Mobile, Documents on the N9, Calligra Active, Calligra Kids
> > (which
> > is afaik gone but well, we once had plans there with a specialized
> > interface), ...
> > 
> >> just writing
> >> 'experimental calligra words for android' would imho say it clearly
> >> what's the effort is about atm...
> > 
> > hmmm... Ok, I changed the description from "alpha-version" to
> > "experimental
> > alpha-version".  Now it says "Experimental alpha version with support for
> > Words only, more to come later" or so.
> > 
> > FYI: In fact all that started with Sheets and I have a compiling and
> > linking Sheets already. The reasons why I switched to Words are that a)
> > Sheets makes way lesser use of calligralibs and getting calligralibs
> > working and proper tested was very important cause b) Words and Stage
> > share quit a lot of code/logic and so having Words done its a small(er)
> > step to Stage. The thing is that I like to first focus on the
> > foundations, that means get Words proper threaded, before adding more and
> > more to the mix. That's what I will work on next.
> > 
> > For the "for Android" part: That's what I wrote and what most
> > news-articles
> > took over even in there headlines, no? Anyhow, its also clear that that
> > isn't 100% true cause I actually did/do most of the work on my KDE
> > desktop,
> > where the app runs and works fine too, and only test on the device from
> > time to time or for things like multi-touch where desktop isn't that
> > good. Probably would make sense I add it to OBS so there are packages for
> > desktop Linux. Will look at it. Also its clear that BB10 and Sailfish are
> > very much on top of my list. Anyhow, I think the interesting news here
> > for now is indeed the "runs on Android and heer are the packages" part
> > and that's what most news-articles took over. imho a good message.
> 
> Since you seem to be trying to cut down on size, perhaps Calligra Mini? :)

Calligra Mini is actually a very good name. If you plan to create minimal 
viewer versions for a number of architectures, I could get behind it and do 
some marketing...

	-Inge




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