Review Request: Rename Samba Shares to Windows Shares (SMB)

[Andrius da Costa Ribas]

> On June 21, 2012, 10:05 p.m., Mark Gaiser wrote:
> > I don't really know if we should do this.. I do understand why you want to rename it. From a user point of view the user probably wants to either access windows shares or make shares accessible for windows. Either way, it's done through Samba which implements the SMB protocol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block so it are actually "SMB Shares" ;)
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> > Changing it is not really useful i think. I for example make "Samba shares" between Linux machines as well since that is just easy and why should those be called "Windows Shares" all of a sudden? I think "Samba Shares" is just fine. Perhaps "SMB Shares" describes it even better.
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> > I'm not against the change, but also not in favor. Someone else should decide whether this is OK or not.
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> Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
>     I am also against this change, also because Windows is a trademark, so we have better avoid using it in KDE. OBS: samba also implements the cifs protocol, the sucessor of SMB and the current default protocol used in Win7. So "SMB Shares" is also not a good name.

On Windows a "\\" path is "translated" into a "smb://" URL for KDE apps, so no Samba is used at all but the bookmark is still called "Samba Shares"


- Andrius da Costa


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On June 21, 2012, 3:40 p.m., Maarten De Meyer wrote:
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> (Updated June 21, 2012, 3:40 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Runtime and David Edmundson.
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> Description
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> Fix for bug 141257. Renamed 'Samba Shares' to 'Windows Shares (SMB)'
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> I posted this on the usability mailing list a while a go and David Edmundson CC'd the original author but for now there has been no response.
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-usability&m=133173657001169&w=2
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> Since we are past string freeze this is probably for 4.10
> I can not commit this myself, thanks
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> This addresses bug 141257.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141257
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> Diffs
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>   kioslave/smb/smb-network.desktop a121a31 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105318/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Maarten De Meyer
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