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[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 20:49, schrieb Ryan Novosielski:
> Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > So what (one-word) term would describe it best, what all that data is
> > about? I got stuck with "people", hoping it does include the concepts of
> > groups, institutions, projects and organizations for most. But it is not
> > really satisfying.
> > neighbourhood? environment? society? invented new term?
>
> What's wrong with Contacts? That's what my handheld calls them. Did I
> miss something? :)

The data about persons on your handheld is surely used to contact others, so 
that term and it's semantic specification is alright. But on your 
multipurpose desktop computer the data about persons (and their grouping) can 
include much more (in theory and soon hopefully in reality). There are other 
users you share files and other system resources with (see, you call them 
user, not contact). In multiperson games the others aren't contacts, too.  
And would you call your pizza service a contact? Or your favourite online 
news feed? 

As the plan is to collect all data about the persons and projects/institutions 
you know in Akonadi, speaking only of contacts is limiting what people expect 
from it. As can be seen in how much people have used KABC for now in their 
code, not that much.

Yes, may be nitpicking, but software is written in languages, so semantics do 
effect a lot :)

Friedrich
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