Renaming Nepomuk-KDE to "Braid"

Sebastian Trüg sebastian at trueg.de
Tue Jun 5 17:01:45 BST 2007


On Tuesday 05 June 2007 17:39:27 David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> > Monday 04 June 2007 skrev Allen Winter:
> > > On Sunday 03 June 2007 4:55:46 am Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > >
> > > > on the nepomuk-kde list we had a little discussion about a new name
> > > > for Nepomuk-KDE. The result was "Braid" with the meaning of
> > > > "interwoven information" and a reference to GEB [1].
> > > >
> > > > This would mean that some parts would be renamed. I propose the
> > > > following:
> > >
> > > I think I object.
> > > Can this wait for the 4.1 release?
> > >
> > > I can't see a good technical reason to do this.
> > > But maybe I'm missing something.
> >
> >   Well, if you really want to get technical about it, i guess one could
> > call on the whole refactoring thing - automatically refactoring
> > everything later when we /know/ it'll change names anyway seems a little
> > potentially breaky to me, so that it would be better to get it done
> > faster...
> >
> >   However, more mindshare oriented arguments would be that you'd
> > preferably want to avoid the confusion that renaming Rendezvous to
> > Bonjour caused Apple when they did that. We would really want people to
> > know and remember the name from the start.
>
> Yeah, let's get it done, it's now or never, and it shouldn't take long.

So, I will do it next monday then.

Cheers,
Sebastian





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