crystal... few things about that name

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday 26 January 2009 01:05:05 Davide Bettio wrote:
> I think you should try to find a better name:
> 1) Crystal was used for a long period as an icon theme name (that Isn't
> used anymore), so when I read that name I think about the old Crystal SVG
> theme.

Irrelevant IMO, it's just an icon set, which is deprecated anyway, so no real 
naming clashes.

I will however do my best to make you forget "crystal is an icon set" and 
always know "crystal is that awesome desktop search thing". :)

> 2) That name doesn't suggest anything about what that plasmoid does.
> A name that suggest what the plasmoid is, isn't needed but it helps a lot.

I think it actually conveys pretty well what it does. The backing technologies 
(Strigi and Nepomuk) both, while technically excellent have names that totally 
don't work. Imagine "Nepomuk Applet" or something like that ... nooooooo. 
Crystal OTOH conveys "clear", "crystal ball" (which is actually a pun), and it 
works really well with our other technologies.

So while the user-visible name should at least contain "Desktop Search" or 
"Search", I think that Crystal is just an excellent name for that.
-- 
sebas

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