Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

Mark markg85 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 23:00:36 BST 2011


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:50 PM, David Jarvie <djarvie at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mon, July 25, 2011 12:50 pm, Ambroz Bizjak wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>> have you seen my proposed improvement on your suggestion?
>>
>> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131149560119520&w=2
>>
>> I suggest that you consider it, because it would avoid having to
>> update the Freedesktop specification and any DE that doesn't name its
>> programs differently in other DEs (e.g. Xfce).
>
> This proposal has the same drawbacks as Mark's - it is aimed at
> knowledgeable users, not the ordinary user who may not be aware of which
> desktop a particular application is from. See
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131159889604990&w=2.
>
> --
> David Jarvie.
> KDE developer.
> KAlarm author - http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
>
>

Do you mind sharing your solution?
Thanx.




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