> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:19:52 -0600 > "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> wrote: > >> On 02/23/2012 10:20 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote: >> > It is TDE, which is continued development on a fork of KDE3. >> >> I for one like the k_names for all that can stay k_whatever. ALT+F2 >> <app I want> is second nature. Even going forward, if major apps >> change names, then instead of replacing the 'k' with a 't' why not >> just add a 't' in the beginning: >> >> tkonsole (sounds a lot better than 'tonsole') and >> tkonqueror (sounds a lot better than 'tonqueror') > Or we could completely change the names, as MATÃ did. > For Konsole, unfortunately Terminal and Terminator both exist. > I think Trinitype (as a name which is close to Teletype) could be a > good name, but as I'm French-speaking I can't say if it sounds good ;) > For Konqueror, the original name came from the browsers > (http://konqueror.kde.org/faq/#WheredoesthenameiKonqueroricomefrom): > Navigator, Explorer, Konqueror. > Perhaps ColonisT would be a good sequel ? Sounds like a colonoscopy to me. ;-) Konqueror is an especially tricky app to rename; it would be like trying to rename Explorer under Windows. How many times have you said to a user "Fire up Konqueror and do..."? Tim