[Kwintv] Snapshots (no, not those kind...)

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Wed Mar 10 21:28:41 CET 2004


On Wednesday 10 March 2004 07:57, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> >>>>stability.  The big question is, does everyone agree that we should
> >>>>change the executable name and strings in CVS to KWinTV now?
>
> Hmm, did I miss the discussion changing the considered future name back
> to KWinTV? I thought at the end of the last discussion I read in here
> about that topic the majority would want to go with KDETV...

  Sorry, yes, kdetv.  :-)  I forgot...

> I might be wrong, and I'm only a user following the discussions. I
> consider it would be a good time to get rid of the "win" in the name, as
> there no connection with an OS that starts with that name, and the app
> doesn't only support cards that have "WinTV" in their name. It also
> doesn't resemble Hauppage's WinTV application (and I wouldn't be sure if
> the name eventually could conflict with their brand).

  You are right.

> Additionally, people that want to keep the old KWinTV in parallel to the
> rewrite, having the name KDETV (kdetv/KDEtv/kdeTV) now would make that
> possible...

   KDE::TV :-)

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