Nepomuk Labelling in System Settings

Sebastian Trüg strueg at mandriva.com
Mon Aug 18 15:26:12 BST 2008


On Monday 18 August 2008 15:52:02 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Monday 18 August 2008 14:59:51 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > On Monday 18 August 2008 14:12:19 Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> > > We are going through labelling in Kubuntu in preparation for Ibex and I
> > > have some questions for upstream.  Generally, you can either label by
> > > brand (application or service name) or labelling by function or task.
> > > We've elected to label by function or task since it will be easier for
> > > users who are not familiar with KDE technologies to find and guess what
> > > different things do.
> > >
> > > For example, we are currently using "Sound" for Phonon (but plan on
> > > relabelling it to "Sound and Video" or "Multimedia" since Phonon
> > > handles both).  Currently we are using "Solid" for hardware, but plan
> > > on relabelling it to "Hardware".
> > >
> > > We are also using "Nepomuk", but has the same brand-awareness issue of
> > > Phonon and Solid.  Currently almost all the options in the module have
> > > to do with Strigi and I am under the impression that Nepomuk is
> > > essentially for search. We would like to rename it to "Search" or
> > > "Semantic Search" or whatever.  Is this basically correct?  All of the
> > > semantic features I know of are for the end purpose of searching,
> > > browsing, or filtering. We will still use "Nepomuk" in the actual
> > > module.  This label change is only for the link label in System
> > > Settings.
> >
> > Then call it "desktop search" for now.
>
> This should be done upstream, no? :)

Actually, Nepomuk is not only search. I know it goes slow, but we are aiming 
much higher. So if we keep names like Solid and Phonon, we should also keep 
Nepomuk.




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