> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 11:39:55PM +0100, andre_debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
