Thoughts on Krita website presentation

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 23:50, Warren Baird wrote:
> Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > An other solution is to presplit the tarball ourself :
> > - KDE Office Library
> > - KDE Office Productivity (roughly the equivalent of MSO, OOo, iWorks)
> > - KDE Office Creativity (Karbon14 + Krita)
>
> I think pre-splitting the tarballs is a great idea...   but I'd have to
> say that putting "Office" and "Creativity" on the same line is
> counter-productive...   Most people, especially primarily creative
> types, think of "Office" as the most anti-creative word around.

We'll have to keep this in mind when we start releasing KOffice 2.0 final. I 
do expect that it will be possible to do.

> Naming is in general a hard thing...  One advantage companies like Apple
> have is a huge marketing group to come up with cool, compelling names.
>
> I'm not a marketer - but as a product manager I've kinda had to do the
> same thing a bit.   I think short catchy names are important.   Compare
> "KDE Office Productivity" to "iWorks".
>
> I must admit I'm not a big fan of the whole s/C/K/g approach to naming
> that permeates the KDE Kulture --- but maybe something as simple as
> "Kreate" for the creative component...

"KDE Integrated Combined Kreativity Suite -- because it kicks ass!"

Sorry, still being in a silly mood :-)

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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