[Kde-pim] KContactManager Name

[David Jarvie]

On Thursday 23 April 2009 22:15, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 23 April 2009, Sergio Martins wrote:
>> On Thursday 23 April 2009 16:51:48 Allen Winter wrote:
>> > Can we pick a new name for the new KAddressBook?
>> > I'm really not excited about KContactManager.
>> >
>> > Not that I have any good suggestions at the moment,
>> > by KContactManager is too close to Kontact.
>>
>> If it will replace KAddressBook we could use the same name, no?
>>
>> KAddressBook 2
>
> I agree. KAddressBook really is the best name for it although appending
> a '2' won't do because KAddressBook is currently at version 4.2 (since
> it follows the version number of KDE). Maybe append something like 'NG'
> or whatever.
>
> In fact, as application name (shown in the UI) "KDE Address Book" would
> be even better. Reasoning: We should try to get away from this
> K-namespacing of our applications. It's so last-century. Moreover,
> explicitely adding KDE to the application's name will improve the
> awareness of the KDE brand. FWIW, I'd like to see the same happen with
> KMail (-> KDE Mail), KOrganizer (-> KDE Calendar?), etc.

The name should be descriptive, and kaddressbook (shown as "KDE Address
Book" in the menu) or kontacts (shown as "KDE Contacts") are the best
suggestions so far.

> The name of the executables would still be ksomething because on this
> level the namespacing does make sense. Maybe on this level the new
> address book app could simply be named kaddressbook2.

I agree.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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