2011/7/7 Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org>: > On Friday, July 1, 2011 19:19:41 Ruurd Pels wrote: >> ... >> >> duh... the remark being... >> >> In my travels down the Linux Path, I also developed a curiosity to >> explore >> KDE. It is my understanding that there has been a major change within >> the >> past couple of years within KDE. I downloaded the live DVD of Open >> Suse >> and took some time to work with it. KDE is stunningly beautiful but >> complex. It has components to it with names so out of sync with what >> they >> do, that it was difficult for me to understand their purpose within the >> environment. > > honestly, the failure here is in the user needing to ever see Akonadi as > Akonadi. in the UI it should be consistently absent, and when the user does > need to interact with that service it should be refered to as the "Personal > Informaton Storage Service" or some such.
Or something else, considering the acronym (PISS)... ;) > > this is what we have been doing with plasma for a while and nepomuk more > recently. > > unfortunately, developers continue to add over time new instances of these > terms into the UI or present the user with uninteresting informaton related to > these services. > > some of us continue to try and remind the developers of this and try to fix > these issues with patches over time ... more help in that is most welcome. > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > humru othro a kohnu se > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
