Nepomuk Labelling in System Settings

[Celeste Lyn Paul]

On Monday 18 August 2008 10:26:12 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> 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

What else does it do?  I know you can rank files and add metadata, but isn't 
the end result for search?  If we know what it will be doing in the future 
maybe we can come up with a label which will include that functionality as 
well.

> aiming much higher. So if we keep names like Solid and Phonon, we should
> also keep Nepomuk.

The problem is we aren't using Phonon right now (we use Sound and will change 
it to Multimedia or Sound and Video), just Solid and Nepomuk.  Using brand 
names prevents people who don't know the technology from discovering the 
option.  That is why we were trying to find a good label to describe the 
activity or the task instead of using the brand.

System settings doesn't include descriptions of the modules on the index page, 
and so it would require a user expecting a failed exploration to discover it.  
There are other problems with System Settings organization and discovery in 
general.  If there are resources available I'm up for sketching some designs 
to solve some of these problems.

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Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org