[Kst] Bugzilla Versions

[Peter Milne]

How about: "kst-plot"

- recalls the heritage of the tool,
- says what it does,
- needss only 5 keys : kst-<tab> :-),
- google "kst-plot" : it already finds the right place ..

On 08/21/2010 10:49 PM, Barth Netterfield wrote:
> I chose kst because it started with a k and was only three letters long
> :-)  I normally run it from the command line.
>
> I originally thought of it as a chart recorder or 'stripchart'.
>
> I don't have a better name (yet) but a good app slogan might be "explore
> your data."
>
> C. Barth Netterfield
> University of Toronto
> 416-845-0946
>
> On Aug 21, 2010 5:04 PM, <nicolas.brisset at free.fr
> <mailto:nicolas.brisset at free.fr>> wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > yes that can only help, unless FITS support is not production-ready
> yet (I'm not a FITS user, I have no idea how good the support is
> compared to the other tools people can use to work with FITS).
>  > In the same order of ideas, I think I once mailed the CDF and netCDF
> sites to tell them kst had gained support for them (at least partly, we
> should still extend it) but I don't think they ever updated their web pages.
>  >
>  > By the way, strangely nobody commented on my suggestion to change the
> name of the application (at least for the 2.x series). If we ever want
> to go that way, now would be a good time and we should do it *before*
> advertising the new version!
>  > Does anybody have an opinion on that?
>  > I am personnally in favor of it. Barth, I don't know where the name
> comes from and please don't be offended but I find the name neither
> expressive (who could gather the idea that it's a plotting tool from the
> name?) nor "sexy". I've not given it much thought, but to kick off the
> brainstorming I'd suggest "powerplot" or "powerplotter". That would
> surely increase the hit rate by Google when looking for plot tools,
> especially if we create a site with that string in the URL as I've
> noticed that sites with keywords in the URL seem to get high scores. And
> more people may want to give it a try.
>  > OK, I've just seen that this name is already taken. So let's just use
> it as an incentive to unleash your creativity!
>  >
>  > Nicolas
>  > ----- "Peter Kümmel" <syntheticpp at gmx.net
> <mailto:syntheticpp at gmx.net>> a écrit :
>  >
>  >> nicolas.brisset at free.fr <mailto:nicolas.brisset at free.fr>:
>  >> > 2) we definitely need *more press work*.
>  >>
>  >> We could list Kst in the various file-format articles in Wikipedia.
>  >>
>  >> For instance somewhere in the section "Using FITS files" at
>  >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS
>  >>
>  >> Peter
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
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