[Kst] Bugzilla Versions

[Barth Netterfield]

My son says "Rename kst?  Why?  Don't rename it."  Being 16, he is by
definition, correct and with the times.

My beautiful wife says "I've never liked the name.  Rename it."

This disagreement of reliable and authoritative sources leaves me in a quandary.

To be slightly more serious, KDE already has a system of descriptive
name/app name, like File Manager/Dolphin.

kst: Explore your data!
cbn


On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Peter Milne <Peter.Milne at d-tacq.com> wrote:
> 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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C. Barth Netterfield
University of Toronto
416-845-0946