[Kde-pim] KContactManager name and release

[Markus]

Hi.
I'm a new subscriber to this list, but I've read the discussion in the mail 
archives about KContactManager that happened a few days ago. I'd like to share 
a few thoughts.

First of all, I agree with those people who think that KContactManager is a 
bad name. Personally, I think that all K* names are bad. Many people are 
annoyed by them just as with Apple's i* names and Gnome's G* names.
One KDE 4 trend is to move away from such names, as seen with Dolphin, Plasma, 
Phonon, etc.
One person suggested "Peers". I like that one, but I fear that some people may 
confuse Peers with a Peer To Peer application like KTorrent. Maybe the name 
could be modified to Peer Book.
Another idea I had for a new name is Adresaro. It just means address book in 
Esperanto. With the exception of a totally dead SourceForge project called 
Disa Adresaro (no activity since 2002 and only a single released file with a 
completely unrelated name), there seems to be no software at all using that 
name.
Peer Book is also not used anywhere.

That means that Google searches will put Peer Book or Adresaro as top result, 
once a large project like KDE adopts that name. OTOH there are several 
projects that adopted "Address Book" and "Contact Manager" as name.
In fact, if you only google for "Address Book" without the "company brand" K 
or KDE attached to it, the KAddressbook doesn't even appear on Google result 
page 1.

One (IMO big) advantage of Adresaro instead of Peers / Peer Book is that lots 
of people will understand it. The term "peer" is pretty much tied to English 
language.
Esperanto was designed to be easy approachable to many people (just like 
software should be). Adresaro is obviously similar to the English word 
address, German Adresse, Czech Adresa, Russian Adres, Turkish Adres, or even 
Tagalog (Philippines' main language) Adresa. Heck, even in Japanese language 
the term Adoresu is used.


Another suggestion I'd like to make is to do a KContactManager (or whatever 
it'll be called) release. I was said the the last thread about that issue that 
it can't appear in KDE 4.3 because it's still buggy and didn't receive much 
testing. So why not make an independent beta release? Move it to Extragear for 
a while.
If someone lends me a hand and teaches how to use Build Service properly, I'd 
even offer my help to maintain (open)SUSE packages (spec file creation is a 
total mystery to me, even though I've already read some documentation).

Markus

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