KAssistant announcement

[Matthias Lechner]

Hi,

I agree with the new naming convention. Assistant is a more intuitive name 
than wizard, though I am used to it.

Btw: Are you currently working on the Assistant? I would like to add at least 
a step list at the top of the assistant window to get an overview about the 
upcoming steps. Maybe we should meet at IRC.

Best regards
Matthias

Am Sonntag, 13. August 2006 23:38 schrieb Jarosław Staniek:
> Hello,
> Developers interested in KWizard for kdelibs4 are rather convinced that the
> class could be better renamed to KAssistantDialog.
>
> Why?
>
> "Assistant" name is already used in translatable strings instead of
> "Wizard" here and there. It's not even that we hate terms coming from MS
> (Wizard), but there are languages where "Wizard" is a nonsense or it's not
> clear what's that in computing. For example in polish, "Creator" term is
> used, that's also not very clever. Summing up, 'assistant' is well
> translatable, and there is a chance that if a developer use the class,
> he/she'll be using "assitant" term in the i18n string, what makes i18n
> teams' life easier.
>
> Tomorrow (monday) I'll rename the class if there's no a big problem. For
> now there's almost no apps code depending on this name (K3Wizard is mostly
> used).
>
> The change is also described at
> http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=kdelibs4+TODO%2FKAssistant