[Kde-pim] jargon is bad! :)

[Paul James Adams]

On Tuesday 16 Mar 2010 08:06:22 Thomas McGuire wrote:
> but saying "importing into KMail" would be plain wrong now.

Technically, yes.

But think about this from the perspective of the user. All they see is 
KMail/Kontact. And why should they see/comprehend anything else? The average 
user treats their experience like a monolith; they don't know/care that the 
experience is actually delivered by a multitude of components with crazy names 
like "Akonadi". All they /think/ they are experiencing is the GUI in front of 
them.

What we should be doing when referring to Akonadi to users is to talk about it 
in terms of the utility it brings; referring to it by name is confusing at 
worst (I think we all agree on that) and vapid at best.

So how about referring to it as "KMail's mail synchronisation component" or 
some shizzle like that? Yes, this is wrong, but it is close /enough/ to the 
truth and it is something that users can understand.

In that respect, I have no problem with things like "importing into KMail". 
Whilst technically incorrect, it is meaningful to the user and not exactly a 
lie.

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