showdesktop in kdereview, proposed move into extragear

[Lubos Lunak]

On Saturday 03 of May 2008, okparanoid wrote:
> Davide Bettio wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I just moved showdesktop plasma applet to kdereview.
> > showdesktop is an applet that allows users to show plasmoids on desktop
> > (like when you use CTRL+F12 shortcut).
> >
> > Bye,
> > Davide Bettio.
>
> Hi !
>
> About this two applets, in an user point of view, i think that the name
> of showdesktop is a little confusing.
> Why not using showDashBoard instead which reflect more the action of the
> applet ?
> Same thing for the icon...

> The ideal for clarity will to rename minimize-all to showDesktop, and
> showDesktop to showDashboard.

 Especially given that minimize-all does not really minimize all. Not 
that "Show Desktop" is a better name, apparently, given all the user 
confusion about what it actually does.

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