Well, at this point i don't believe we should completly change the name. My reason for this is that we made a choice last year after a good and organised process involving everyone. I think a community decision should only be revisited if there is a large consensus that it causes problems which can't be solved by other means. In the present case, i don't think there is such a large consensus, quite the contrary. It seems that the kexi problem can be solved (seeing Adam mail). As for the Words problem, i don't think it is that severe that it requires challenging a community decision. My 2 cts,
PierreSt On 22/11/11 11:51 Uzak Matus wrote: Hi, .. why not to keep it simple, the application should use the capital S: "To open a spreadsheet in Spreadsheet: 1. Click Open button 2. Select a (spreadsheet) document from the list 3. Click "Open". Another example for "save as" filters combo box there would be items like: * LibreOffice spreadsheet * Calligra (Spreadsheet) spreadsheet > Distinct name is the point we want. Excel has not meaning to many non-English > speaking users but it's distinctive. Everyone using a computer is familiar with Excel. Microsoft can use the luxury to have a separate name for a spreadsheet application because of this fact. I don't think we are in such a position, but we might still come up with an amazing name for a spreadsheet application. :) -matus -- Matus Uzak Software Designer Ixonos Slovakia s.r.o. Sturova 27, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia mobile 0421 918 718 958 email: matus.u...@ixonos.com http://www.ixonos.com ________________________________________ From: calligra-devel-boun...@kde.org [calligra-devel-boun...@kde.org] on behalf of Jaroslaw Staniek [stan...@kde.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:26 AM To: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list Subject: Re: results from On 22 November 2011 11:15, Uzak Matus <matus.u...@ixonos.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I discussed the name a bit with friends of mine. And the outcome is: Why > to reinvent the name for a spreadsheet application? It's simply > "spreadsheet". It's a common term that almost any of the potential users > out there understands. Do we care that some other office suite is using the > same name ("spreadsheet") for it's spreadsheet application? It's a part of > Calligra => Calligra Spreadsheet(s). We may care about the same as beofre: not to have this sentence in a handbook: "To open a spreadsheet in Spreadsheet: 1. Click Open button 2. Select spreadsheet document from the list 3. Click "Open". " Another example for "save as" filters combo box there would be items like: * LibreOffice Spreadsheet * Calligra Spreadsheet Spreadsheet Bam! <head explodes> > > In contrast, what does a user associates with an application named {tables, > abakus, numbers, sheets, .., }? I admit there are relations with a > spreadsheet application, but very weak (yes there are tables in a > spreadsheet). And I don't think many people, especially people under 30 > have an idea what is/was an abacus? :) Abacus, like Plan and Stage etc. are all in english language so this is not a point. Distinct name is the point we want. Excel has not meaning to many non-English speaking users but it's distinctive. Good consistency would be a plus but not a the cost of confusion that I mentioned in examples above. -- 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 _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
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