On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 17:20:16 Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote: > Today there was an announcement that KOffice got a new name (Calligra) > and they also renamed some of the Applications. "KWord" became "Words", > "KSpread" became "Tables" and "KPresenter" was renamed to "Stages". > > I was wondering whether such a name change has been considered for the > LibreOffice Applications. The point is that I don't really like the > current names. I'm not a Name Designer, but Writer, Calc and Impress > don't really sound good in my ears and I would even say that most people > using OpenOffice would not know the names of the Applications they are > using, only that it's OpenOffice. > > If LibreOffice changed the names of the Applications shipping, that > might also help people to differentiate between OpenOffice and > LibreOffice in Future. > > Here a comparison of the names of text processing, spreadsheet and > presentation program of six Office Suites: > > MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint > Apple iWork: Pages, Numbers, Keynote > Calligra(former KOffice): Words, Tables, Stages
Stage, not Stages :-) > Softmaker Office: Textmaker, Planmaker, Presentations > Corel WordPerfect Office: WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations > OpenOffice.org: Writer, Calc, Impress > > I think MS Office, iWork and now Calligra have the best names for their > applications. It's easy to spell and easy to remember. > I would like to hear what everyone else is thinking about changing names > for LibreOffice applications. > > Samuel M. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
