Application maintainerships

[Robert Knight]

> And I am positive that nobody would mind that new maintainer making up a
> name thats actually pronouncable, descriptive and does not necessarily
> start with a K :)

Agreed, apologies for the O/T comment but...

I used to be agnostic about the K-naming-prefix thing, until I moved
to Ubuntu Dapper and had both GNOME and KDE desktops installed.

Finding programs in the gnome menu was a noticeably quicker than
finding the KDE equivalents because of the K-naming scheme.  Selecting
the "Description (Name)" layout option doesn't help because different
apps will often have the same generic descriptions, and multi-word
descriptions take longer to parse and interpret that a single-word
well-chosen name.

Aesthetically speaking, it is ugly and is guaranteed to make most
words harder to pronounce as well.



On 05/08/06, Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg at snafu.de> wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 15:39, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > Twice I have written up blogs looking for new maintainers for apps and both
> > times within a very short amount of time I have gotten responses from
> > people who are looking to get involved in KDE and want to help out.  So if
> > you know of an application in KDE that isn't being maintained blogging
> > about it is a great way to get outside interest and involvement.  There
> > seems to be a lot of people who want to help out in KDE, but just aren't
> > sure how.
>
> Out of my mind, I have following non-maintained code
> - kbabel (very important)
> - kio_man (especially add correct support for mdoc manpages)
> - kio_info
> - kio_ftp
> - kio_fish
> - kio_floppy
> - kio_mac
>
> Also I am not sure of the current status of KFloppy or its planned replacement
> KFormat.
>
> That are my first ideas; I will think further...
>
> >
> > -Benjamin Meyer
>
> Have a nice day!
>