two exceptions for string freeze in Plasma

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Thu Mar 10 09:14:56 UTC 2016


On Thursday, March 10, 2016 02:37:11 Alexander Potashev wrote:
> 2016-03-09 19:24 GMT+03:00 Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org>:
> > Indeed. My change was not trying to get a generalized policy implemented,
> > but to fix the wrong use of the KDE brand. We do have people telling us
> > that they'll happily use KDE to refer to the desktop because we don't
> > even use it consistently ourselves. My change addresses this consistency
> > issue.
> Sebastian,
> 
> I don't think "KDE Info Center" is wrong use of KDE brand. This name
> is as common as "Microsoft Internet Explorer": in both cases the first
> part is name of the developer/vendor.

It's highly confusing, as it can too easily be mistaken that this thing 
provides info about KDE, which is the whole problem.

By your logic, we'd have to prepend all of our application names with KDE.
-- 
sebas

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