Fwd: [Bug 80135] New: Rename KNewStuff to something else

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Friday 23 April 2004 10:44, David Faure wrote:
> > IMHO, KNewStuff isn't a terribly professional name for a public
> > API. "stuff", especially is an extremely colloquial word.  Please
> > consider at least renaming that part of the name.
>
> I have a bit of the same feeling, but on the other hand, did this
> person complain about
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/libimage/libpr0n.html? :)
>
> Within KDE it's true that the rest of kdelibs stays away from such
> familiarity.

Does anybody have a suggestion for a better name?

Several people complained that "Get Hot New Stuff" is a bad name for a 
menu entry, but up to now nobody came up with a better idea for a 
recognizable name for this feature which is used in several apps for 
several kinds of data. A "serious" common name for this usually is 
meaningless and boring. The "stuff" name at least is somewhat more 
memorable.

The API naming currently just reflects how the feature is called in the 
GUI.

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>