[Kde-pim] jargon is bad! :)

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 21 March 2010 17:57:40 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > hi ...
> > 
> > first: apologies for the cross posting. at least you can see that it
> > isn't - just- your projects that suffer from the issue below, though
> > ;)
> > 
> > ok, so the point of this email is to note the obvious: displaying
> > jargon to the user is bad. the average computer user does not know
> > what "compositing", "akonadi" or "nepomuk" are. they do understand
> > what "desktop effects"[1], "personal information service"[2] or
> > "search service" is.
> 
> Akonadi is worse than "personal information service", but the latter
> still is part of a domain specific language most users won't understand.
> 
> In my experience nobody knows what "personal information" is supposed to
> be. Quite frankly, if I wouldn't know what "personal information" (in
> the context of PIM) means I'd read it as "information about my person".
> Maybe that's a language barrier thing.
> 
> (FWIW, Wikipedia doesn't have an entry for "personal information" which
> IMHO is a good indicator for a term that is not a widely known.)
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't know a better term. :-(
> 
Maybe it's an age thing ;-) - I'd never heard of PIM until - 1980s, was it? - 
everyone started having a Filofax.  Suddenly everyone needed a PIM.

Anne
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