[Kde-pim] Re: KDEPIM 4.5beta4?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 27 Sep 2010 13:50:17 Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 26. September 2010 16:10:57 schrieb Torgny Nyblom:
> > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:05:44 -0400
> > 
> > Allen Winter <winter at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 26 September 2010 4:08:42 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 26 Sep 2010 04:22:32 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > > > > Just a side note: The product is called "Kontact", not
> > > > > "KDEPIM" (so says kde-promo).
> > > > 
> > > > Since PIM is a Personal Information Manager I find their decision
> > > > very hard to accept.  How can a group of developers be called a
> > > > PIM?  grrrr!!
> 
> According to Cornelius, it was a decision that the KDEPIM (group) took
> to call the (main) product "Kontact".
> 
> > > Our community is called kdepim or KDEPIM or KDE-PIM or PIMsters
> > > Our module is called kdepim
> > 
> > and kdepimlibs and soon kdepim-runtime :)
> 
> I support the decision because a main obstacle for more users
> of our group's products is communication.
> 
> Kontact with its frontends for Mail, Calendar, Contacts and so on
> is much more than a manager for personal information,
> it can be a groupware.
> 
I'm perfectly happy that Kontact was chosen as the name for the product.  It's 
just that I think of the developers as Pimsters, or whatever, but not, ever 
and KDEPIM, which is not, to me, a human term.  However, in the end, it will 
make little difference, I guess.

Anne
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