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Sunday, April 26th 2009, 1:52am

Please change KDE naming convention

Hello,

it may be a big wish but anyway: could you please change the naming scheme of the KDE apps?

I love KDE, but the spelling errors in each name literally hurt my eyes. I am a programmer, and programmers as a group, we tend to obey syntax... ;).

I am actually considering hard to turn to Gnome because of this issue, sad as it is. I prefer an environment that is not full of spelling errors, and for sure will install that one on other computers I administer too.

Could you use proper English words? Not Konsole, but may try "KDE Console" or "K Console", no one gets hurt.

It is a constant argument, that other environments do this too, e.g. Windows Media Player, WinAmp, WinRar, etc.

NOTE however: there are no spelling errors in those names! And you would need to try real hard to find a misspelled application name in Windows or MacOS!

Just this name change would aid the perception of KDE as a professional environment that is not being developed by beginner hackers, which I do know not the case, but the current naming style suggests that.

Thanks for considering this,

Tibor

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