[Kde-pim] KNotes Description: Was: [kde-doc-english] kde-doc-english Digest, Vol 62, Issue 6

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 19:53:05 Michael Lockhart wrote:
> What about kaveat?  (caveat; n.  take notice, or to alert or warn, which is
> what I use sticky notes for).
>
> take it or leave it, the k-nouns annoy some people...
>
I'm not really asking about renaming KNotes, the program.
I'm asking if we should give KNotes a better program description.
Simply saying "Notes" is not enough IMO.

I'll probably go with "Popup Notes", simply because I already
see that in the GenericName.

Are there objections to this string change?

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> > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:34:59 -0400
> > From: Allen Winter <winter at kde.org>
> > Subject: [kde-doc-english] KNotes Name
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> > Howdy,
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> > We recently embedded KJots into Kontact.
> > This means we now have "Notes" (knotes) and "Notebooks" (kjots)
> > stitched together in 1 application.
> >
> > I think this is confusing.
> >
> > I'm wondering if we should change the strings for the knotes  component
> > from "Notes" to "Sticky Notes" or "Popup Notes" or "Post-it(tm) Notes"
> > or???
> >
> > Interestingly, the GenericName in the knotes.desktop file says "Popup
> > Notes".
> >
> > In summary, I'm asking:
> > 1) if we should change the knotes name from "Notes" to something else
> > 2) if so, to what?  "Popup Notes"?
> > 3) if so, do I have permission to make the necessary string changes?
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> > Regards,
> > Allen
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> > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:05:48 +0200
> > From: Michael Skiba <michael at michael-skiba.de>
> > Subject: Re: [kde-doc-english] KNotes Name
> > To: For people writing documentation for KDE <kde-doc-english at kde.org>
> > Message-ID: <200806102105.51812.michael at michael-skiba.de>
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> > Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 18:34:59 schrieb Allen Winter:
> > > I'm wondering if we should change the strings for the knotes ?component
> > > from "Notes" to "Sticky Notes" or "Popup Notes" or "Post-it(tm) Notes"
> > > or???
> >
> > Changing the name would be logical to avoid a bit confusing.
> >
> > How about "Desktop Notes"? Or "Stick-it" (to avoid the tradename)?
> >
> > Greetings
> > Michael
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