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Re: [trinity-devel] BIG Issue - Have all 'kd' to 'td' name changes taken place that WILL take place?

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:00:34 -0600
> 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 MATÉ 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