On Tuesday 08 January 2019 17:18:22 Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2019 06:03:53 pm William Morder wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 January 2019 15:53:31 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I khint khak we are heading down a slippery pakh here. How abouk if we > > all jusk agree ko live wikh khe hybrid of bokh naming schemes, ak leask > > unkil some genius invenks somekhing bekker. > > > > Bill > > Thanks Bill, you made my night ;) > > +1 for Best post of the Year! > Glad to be appreciated for my dubious talents. It was either that, or the explanatory YouTube video of kittens again. Writing that short bit got to be a pain after the first sentence or so, but that was my point: imagine trying to rename all the packages! And then they will have to be correlated with all the legacy KDE3 and present TDE names. Batch renaming won't work too well, because too many packages have awkward names (e.g., knetworkmanager=network-manager-tde) which resist a simple K>T conversion. We would be better off to start over from scratch; otherwise, as Take* said, it's legacy, history. Until we have enough TDE users, who care enough to change it, there is not much inconvenience, and surely we can just live with it. It's okay if we're a little messy, I think, so long as we are consistent; but at present we are bound to the old KDE3 names. Bill * That's Trinitese for Kate.