Rename Coffice?

Jaroslaw Staniek staniek at kde.org
Wed Mar 27 22:47:05 GMT 2013


Sebastian, I only referred the marketing/PR side of things; both Inge
and part of me offer you support in that area.
The desire I tried to express is: avoiding confusion among users or
3rdparties, plus wannabe journalists, by not multiplying extra
*official public* flavors of Calligra in their minds unless it can be
easily explained in a short sentence to a Joe user. This is important,
and was also quickly pointed out in the first comment on your blog
entry [http://blogs.kde.org/2013/03/24/coffice-calligra-android-available-now].

I am totally OK with codenames, by design internal, either using urban
dictionary, coding prefixes (COffice) or anything else :) But I would
pick some parity here too since in case of FOSS also developer's blogs
are part of the public messages. Journalists keep using them to
sometimes say much more than the original authors actually mean. See
Phoronix in the Aaron/Mir case as an example.

Codenames, if they even exist, are not the same as the publicly
communicated names that shaping the public recognition. A good
improvement is the proposal of Calligra Mini sub-brand.

Regarding the part that you do not plan (and I am not surprised given
how complex it is): the look. I hope that ultimately, Calligra on
Android shall be compliant with how 'native' apps look on the OS. This
also most likely applies to any other platform that offers anything
like own UX guidelines.

So your early (and hopefully often) releasing should be highly
respected. I only mean that the effort should be have an
'Experimental' label attached in very visible place (Google calls it
beta) so it is much safer for us.

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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