On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Calvin Morrison mutantturkey@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 December 2011 07:16, Aleksey Midenkov midenok@gmail.com wrote:
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
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.
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
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! :)