On 09/01/2015 10:08 PM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > Ladies and gentlemen, I'll take a decision on this in the next couple > of days. As it stands now, Pixie is a universal favourite but we can't > use it for copyright reasons. > > Kapture seems to have the most number of votes, so if nothing changes > I'll go with that.
I'd like to object to using Kapture for a number of reasons ... apologies for getting involved at this late hour, I was on vacation for most of this thread :) * The forcibly-inject-a-K naming scheme used to offer some utility in the form of communicating to users that an application was meant to use in a KDE workspace, and would work well in it. Through various efforts (cross-desktop standardization via freedesktop.org, KDE's porting efforts, even our rebranding exercise) we've moved beyond that in need and spirit, and largely only negatives remain - such as its gimmicky nature and bad reputation. I think the app is great and it would be unfortunate for its rollout to be overshadowed by a reaction to this backwards-oriented name. * It's not very memorable. Verb-based names don't easily imprint as a thing. * It doesn't sound pleasant and feels out of character due to many strong consonants and the snap of the first syllable. It doesn't sound approachable or nimble, it sounds serious and heavy-duty. Note these kinds of things transfer to a great degree across language spheres (cf. the Bouba-Kiki effect). Personally I'm a big fan of the "Selfie" suggestion: * It's clever and funny (the computer taking a self-portrait). * For those who can't take the word seriously - it also works tongue-in-cheek. It's not a fad, though; a word for the concept was needed, this it it, there won't be another (with the exception of Korea's "selca" for self-camera, perhaps). It's won. * Selfie is a artifact of globally interconnected culture, it's familiar to many non-English-speakers and not nerdy, while capture is advanced English and fairly technical and unapproachable. * It's an opportunity to appropriate a mainstream word for our purposes before anyone else really does. Those don't come along that often. * It sounds pleasant due to weaker consonants and i/e vowels. Cats would like this name. (But admittedly some language spheres can't pronounce f well.) Cheers, Eike _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community