On 21 November 2011 08:27, Sebastian Sauer <m...@dipe.org> wrote: > On 11/21/2011 04:36 AM, Thorsten Zachmann wrote: >> >>> It also reveals the names (for those that weren't at the sprint). And yes >>> some were made as a joke, but in all fairness all proposed names were >>> brought to the vote. >>> >>> >>> 1. Abacus (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices) >> >> Even if it won the competition it is a bad choice as there is already a >> spreadsheet application out there with this name. See >> http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html > > I agree. The sucks. Also the list of names is so bad that I don't wonder it > wins. Even more worse now we destroyed the nice idea the brand and the app > names had :-(
Sorry guys, that was discussed already (before Calligra became Calligra), but I will repeat this for Marijn: The "conflict" is with an xabacus game and with an app unmaintained for years (only package in the linked BSD was maintained for unknown reason). See the case in Debian: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2001/03/msg00080.html abacus spreadsheet program as a research project has been abandoned in 1998. Nearly at the same time when KSpread was born. For us no doubt 'Tables' was more ugly conflict with many apps - this is the very central reason for rename. And what, we've voted on Calligra Abacus, not Abacus. Sound nicely. The same reasoning was used for Tabes and there were no many complaints (well at least I complained). Ubuntu has game not a spreadsheet - it is xabacus not abacus. I think it's not fair to bikeshed now when we had opportunity to do so before voting (it was announced after the sprint). So any use of the name is not in conflict with our specific use. There are two _active_ Unity projects if someone cares. And as for Thorsten's suggestion on open source apps: restricting usage of (common!) name is against the Open Source Definition. And the very last, there's not going to be even package naming conflict (as there was no conflict in Tables) since the package name would be calligra-abacus. To have some real measure, I would look at the real usage of the name _since_ this was the reason for taking our energy into rename. E.g. "Export to Abacus" command sounds so much more informative than anything we had. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
