https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479039
Bug ID: 479039
Summary: Don't call Plasma's widgets "plasmoids".
Classification: I don't know
Product: kde
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: unassigned-b...@kde.org
Reporter: dave.lindbe...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
Don't call Plasma's widgets "plasmoids". If KDE is stuck with the term for
historical reasons, gradually deprecate it.
The term "widget" is an existing well-known term used across many operating
systems. It applies to KDE "plasmoids" as well as it does anywhere else.
Adopting cute, unique, special names for existing standard concepts just makes
KDE more off-putting and confusing to new users. (This is not the only example,
but is one of the most egregious.)
If a concept has a well-known name, use it. Save invention for ideas that need
new names.
You wouldn't call files "Plasma streams", would you? Or call icons
"hieroglyphs", would you? That would be obviously confusing, since everyone
already knows what "files" and "icons" are.
/rant
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