16 Dec
2011
16 Dec
'11
10:18 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, about pronounciation it is my Russian experience that I forgot to
take into account. Excuse me! On Russian it sounds pretty well 'Gnom'
and 'KaDeYe'. :)) But 'TeDeYe' is funny! :)
On 16 December 2011 07:16, Aleksey Midenkov
<midenok(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not from the point of view of regular user such as myself. For me KDE
is not firm, not some organisation of people. For me KDE is just the
name of program (or suite of programs to be strict). A name that I
used for many years. And will use it because everyone knows what is
KDE3.5 and not many know what is TDE. And when I say TDE, I need to
explain that it is the same as KDE3.5 (with a few bugs fixed, few bugs
added).
Is it registered trademark, btw? Is it against law and against wish of
KDE group (really?) to keep the name of program as it were? Why
someone should relate KDE 3.6 to KDE group if it will be written that
it is supported by Trinity group?
And you corrected me that it was developed. Of course it were. It is
just my English mistake. But it is still UI that was developed by KDE.
And there will be no cardinal changes (if there will be any chages at
all). It will be KDE UI on 99.9%. Otherwise there is no sense for this
project.
I might be a very ignorant in this topic. But I don't see a
justification for the rebranding. The product is *still* KDE on 99.9%
with a few bugs fixed. If there will be some large but hidden changes
like moving from HAL to UDEV, moving from DCOP to DBUS, XDG
compliance, etc. It will be *still* KDE user experience.
Similar code, but it is nNo longer a KDE product
The UI is
developed by KDE and the UI is that is valued most here. So this fuss
about replacement of K with T bothers me much! And this seem to take
too much energy instead of fixing real bugs.
The UI was developed by KDE, no longer is. therefore we cannot continue
using their name or conventions. We need to respect the KDE e.v and their
wishes as well.
And by the way pronounciation of TDE sounds
awkward... So I'm all
against it. Though I am just a user.
and Guh-Nome and Kay-Dee_Eeh sound better? I think the best solution is to
just call it Trinity Desktop :)
Calvin Morrison