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