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Desktop name collisions

Posted Jul 29, 2011 18:35 UTC (Fri) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
Parent article: Desktop name collisions

This will be "solved" around the same time all people around the world adopt a common language, common culture, and common system of government. In other words, never.

In the meantime, the obvious and simple fix, naming the different components "Gnome System Settings" and "KDE System Settings", seems to have escaped everyone.

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Posted Jul 29, 2011 20:23 UTC (Fri) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]

But you're not adjusting the KDE system's settings. That phrasing implies that it is the "KDE System" that you do "Settings" on. Not that it's the "KDE" "System Settings" application.

Semantics matter, and clarity is even more important in a case like this.

Desktop name collisions

Posted Jul 29, 2011 20:44 UTC (Fri) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964) [Link]

Good point! I found KDE's "System Settings" very confusing, because I actually wanted to do RandR stuff, something like "Desktop Preferences" would have fitted my expectation better. System settings, means disk partitioning, barriers on/off, daemon config etc etc to me.