https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429275
Bug ID: 429275
Summary: atrocious grammar: enable option for more/most/all
lowercase
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Reporter: dchme...@gmail.com
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
Many programmers have atrocious grammar, by using uppercase on things that
shouldn't have it. If you write about things you do in the garage, you don't
say "I opened the Garage Door to go open the Toolbox to get my Hammer and Nails
to work on the Workbench to work on a Wooden Craft Project." You see? It's
similar with tools, categories, settings, many (not all) programs, and so on,
on a computer: almost none are persons, places, or things that are proper nouns
(the only uppercase.) This has always annoyed me and I'd like everything in
lowercase except a few things that actually were given proper names (like the
GIMP and Inkscape programs for images, but not /usr/bin/mail, my default mail
client in root sessions.) However things like categories in the kicker
(development, education, games, graphics, Internet, multimedia, office, science
& mathematics, setting, system, utilities, lost & found, help, power & session)
and, in addition to settings category, the actual settings in system settings
program itself (appearance, workspace, personalization, network, hardware,
system administration, etc.) aren't proper nouns. I know, for the kicker menu
I can change them, but that might mess things up, and I can't change them
elsewhere.
X/KDE software/package makers have given proper names to dozens of programs
that the programmers themselves originally just left lowercase, and in some
cases, that's fine (like people need to see there are abbreviations like GIMP,
MAngband, not that these are part of KDE, but can run in it... I'm not sure on
the case of dozens of KDE programs) but not always.
Another minor issue (but major for me as a mathematician/computer-scientist: )
in technical writing, one must give a full term/word then only define the
abbreviation afterwards, but despite plenty of space in the kicker menu,
'Science' isn't abbreviated, but its source, 'Mathematics' is abbreviated.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Look for bad grammar.
2. Probably find much of it.
3. Can't opt-out.
OBSERVED RESULT
Bad grammar is all over the place.
EXPECTED RESULT
At least have an option to opt-out of certain bad grammar (capitalization
similar to some simplistic/challenged non-English speakers capitalize every
single word in a sentence) even if for most people (especially Americans) it's
common enough now.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: all
KDE Plasma Version: all
KDE Frameworks Version: all
Qt Version: all
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