What is my name?

[James J. Baker]

Are you aware (if my memory is correct ;-) ) that the actor who played
super-sleuth Columbo became a bit delusional and set up a hit on his wife
for which he is in prison for a long time? If this lead checks out, it might
be wise to avoid any association.

on 5/29/06 5:46 PM, Frans Englich at englich at kde.org wrote:

> On Sunday 28 May 2006 09:44, Stefan Monov wrote:
>> Hee-hee, too bad Kopete's author didn't know about the "no bad associations
>> in other languages" guideline -- here, in Bulgaria, Kopete means "buy!", in
>> *imperative* form. It also looks *a lot* like "Kopele", which means "son of
>> a bitch". Not to mention that here Kexi is sometimes used as a derogatory
>> term for a fat guy. >_<
> 
> Wow, one can really insult people by mentioning KDE-applications ;-)
> 
>> Anyway, I here are my suggestions (feel free to calmly ignore my K-ism,
>> Aaron):
>> 
>> Kuerist, Patternist, Kondukt, Konquerier, seeK, oaK, looKfor, investiKate,
>> Kolumbus, Kontent, reKuest, FlowtraK, Akcessance, Tranceform, Transq,
>> struKt, taKe, xtraKt
> 
> Amazingly good names. I think one of those actually will be it. They're all
> added to the list. Something like Patternist, simply rocks. Kolumbus, is also
> spot on, and it is simple. Konquerier, sounds great, although it's perhaps
> too close to Konqueror. investikate and looKfor are also just cool.
> 
> Let's look closer on Kolumbus. One thing I started thinking on was this
> seventies' TV-series called Columbo, featuring a charismatic detective,
> always returning saying "Madame, just one last question...". So, tying back
> to Columbo is positive(imho), although I'd say it is a far fetched
> association. But who've said that's negative? Perhaps a little 'identity' and
> non-mainstream is positive. Perhaps "Kolumbo" also is close enough to
> "Columbus" to associate that way. It gives an absolutely excellent entry
> point for an interesting website design. So, I'd say Columbo and Kolumbo are
> also alternatives.
> 
> Wouldn't a K-word work better as a namespace for a KDE library, or am I just
> rambling? E.g, all KDE classes are K-prefixed. Dunno, Phonon works fine as a
> namespace, apparently.
> 
> Amount of google hits on these terms:
> 
> Columbus: 10,000,000
> Kolumbus: 6,000,000
> Columbu: 327,000
> Kolumbu: 20,000
> Patternist: 740
> 
> Patternist has this exotic(as in stranger), intellectual ring to it. It is
> also spot on. XSL-T templates contains patterns, and XQuery/XSL-T/XPath deals
> with/walks/produces patterns.
> 
> I think it is clear Kolumbus is a variant on Columbus. "Aha, it's Columbus but
> with K-ification." In this sense, Kolumbu is less "K-ification" and therefore
> becomes more of a personal/unique name, perhaps.
> 
> Patternist is obviously a bit synthetic; "Kolumbo" is clearly a name, while
> Patternist is probably less associated as to be a name, perhaps. Patternist
> is a bit long.
> 
> I really find this difficult -- perhaps I haven't even looked/discussed the
> really good ones yet. I need to sleep on this.
> 
> Is there anything "no-no" about any columbus-version or Patternist? What do
> people prefer among Stefan's names?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Frans
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