> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 11:39:55PM +0100, andre_debian@... wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 January 2019 03:18:04 David C. Rankin wrote:
> > >     Kate -> Take or
> > >     Konsole -> Tonsole or
> > >     Konqueror -> Tonqueror,
> > 
> > Yes, it's true,
> > Why the applications keep the letter "K" as KDE ?
> > It should be "T" as Trinity.
> > Twrite, Tedit, Tview, Tmail, Tonqueror...
> 
> No they shouldn't. They should stay the same name. These applications 
> don't change to gonsole, gonqueror, gate, etc when they are run under 
> Gnome.
> 
> "Konsole" etc work as names because they already start with a hard-C 
> sound, so its just a cute spelling pun: "console" sounds exactly the 
> same as "konsole".
> 
> But "tonsole" sounds like the organ at the back of your throat, the 
> tonsil.
> 
> And let's be realistic: TDE is not precisely a popular desktop. Sad but 
> true. Somebody looking for help with "Tmail" is going to find very 
> little information unless Google is clever enough to say "Did you mean 
> Kmail?" The existing names have worked fine for many years, let's not 
> break what isn't broken.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> 
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Not to put anyone down... I have to agree with Steve for all the reasons 
stated. Along with the fact that it's history, legacy. KDE 3.5.x was a near 
perfect gui. Let's honour it.

Kate