[Kde-pim] jargon is bad! :)

[thorsten at staerk.de]

> 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?
>

Bravo. For the records, it does not stop at KDE PIM as you say. Recently I
noted many people were talking about KDE SC. I asked why and got an answer
so meaningless that I decided to continue calling KDE KDE.

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