[kde] [Bug 479039] New: Don't call Plasma's widgets "plasmoids".

[Dave92f1]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479039

            Bug ID: 479039
           Summary: Don't call Plasma's widgets "plasmoids".
    Classification: I don't know
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: dave.lindbergh at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

Don't call Plasma's widgets "plasmoids". If KDE is stuck with the term for
historical reasons, gradually deprecate it.

The term "widget" is an existing well-known term used across many operating
systems. It applies to KDE "plasmoids" as well as it does anywhere else.

Adopting cute, unique, special names for existing standard concepts just makes
KDE more off-putting and confusing to new users. (This is not the only example,
but is one of the most egregious.)

If a concept has a well-known name, use it. Save invention for ideas that need
new names.

You wouldn't call files "Plasma streams", would you? Or call icons
"hieroglyphs", would you? That would be obviously confusing, since everyone
already knows what "files" and "icons" are.

/rant

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