Re: New subject : K to T

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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@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.
>
> 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!



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