On Monday 21 November 2011 14:47:54 Sebastian Sauer wrote: > On 11/21/2011 11:55 AM, C. Boemann wrote: > > On Monday 21 November 2011 08:27:10 Sebastian Sauer 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 :-( > > > > Uhm what did we do that destroyed some idea. Could you provide a link or > > anything? > > To be more productive on this one; > As far as I remember the idea was to establish one common brand: Calligra. > That means the application-names themself should not be used > "stand-alone" like they where before. So, it's Calligra Words and not > KWord, it's Calligra Stage and not KPresenter and it's Calligra Tables > and not KSpread/Abascus. > This was iirc in the spirit of OpenOffice and Apple which choose both > rather common names like Writer, Numbers, etc. and market them with > there common brand OpenOffice/iWork/etc. > > Now to the source: seems I am not able to find it in our > mailinglist-archieve. Does maybe someone else remember the discussion > back then and has an idea where it took place? Oh another misunderstanding then:
the choices were all meant to still have Calligra in front obviously So "Calligra Abacus" _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
