[Kde-pim] jargon is bad! :)

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Tom Albers wrote:
> Op Tuesday 16 March 2010 02:40 schreef u:
> > ok, so the point of this email is to note the obvious: displaying jargon
> > to the user is bad.
> 
> I've indicated that 'Workspaces' on www.kde.org got some users in my office
> confused, it is still there by lack of alternative. There is a lot of
> jargon around and I don't consider it bad. When you buy a car, you want
> cruise control, abs, traction control, airbags, TDI, etc. They don't sell
> those as 'easy driving', 'good breaks', 'no slips', 'comfortable at
> impact' and 'cheap fuel motor'.
> 
> When you decide the desktop you chose for plasma, akonadi, nepomuk. As said
> in the past, instead of hiding those terms to the user, we should promote
> it so we can make sure the user knows what they do and let them actively
> choose for the KDE SC because we have them.
> 
> just mho, which probably isn't a majority.
> 
Fortunately you don't need to be a majority to be right :) Still Aaron also 
have a point. Using the name only might be confusing to a user, the 
terminology should be discoverable, so in my opinion; if there is no other 
context then the term needs to be atleast implicitly explained by the text 
where it is used.

`Allan
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