[Kde-pim] jargon is bad! :)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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.

in my testing of KDE 4 here with real, actual non-technical KDE users (so not 
people who use MS Windows or Mac usually and are randomly subjected to KDE for 
a testing session ;), something that keeps coming up is the jargon that gets 
"leaked" out into the UI.

this is not a small issue. it's the difference between "this is difficult, 
hard and sucks" and "i like this". seriously, even in failure people respond 
better when the messages they get are understandable and human. few things 
freak people out more than not understanding something they just read when it 
is something they feel they probably need to (like an error message).

i've fixed up nepomuk once or twice (but jargon continues to leak as new 
strings are added!), i've just looked through kwin's messages and fixed them 
up (after testing the results on a user here) and akonadi hasn't been touched 
yet (and is full of visible jargon).

please spend the few minutes necessary to improve this. it is really, really 
important. and please help prevent new strings with jargon from creeping in.

(there is no need to cc me or the other lists; i'm subscribed all the mailing 
lists in the CC :)

[1] personally i think this should actually be "Window Effects". kwin devs: 
what do you think?

[2] or whatever; is there a term already picked out?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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