The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 15:46 UTC (Wed) by zzxtty (guest, #45175)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by peter-b
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Good question, not so much. I've always used non-gnome programs, e.g. firefox, openoffice, evolution, no "G". When using KDE in the past it defaulted to koffice, kmail, konquere (?).

A lot of the gnome programmes start gnome-, if you're looking for something you can type "gnome-" and hit tab a couple of times and get a list of programs, this doenst work for programs with a K stuck halfway through them, and some (but not all) of the gnome program names make sense.

I remember some years ago trying kde, one look at the menus had me running for the hills. Rather than having descriptive program names (e.g. "Calculator") it had a random caKophony of words, I had no idea what anything was, it didnt help that there appeared to be 6 different music players/editors/image viewers/etc. I can't remember which distribution it was, nor how long ago, I'm sure things have changed by now.

When you start using one environment you become use to its idiosyncrasies, this makes you less forgiving when you try another.

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Posted Mar 17, 2011 10:45 UTC (Thu) by kragilkragil (guest, #72832) [Link] (1 responses)

In the future it will be Calligra, Kmail and Rekonq.
And you could maybe replace Kmail with Lionmail.

So KDEs future has a lot less Ks in it, although horrible names like KMyMoney will remain.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 17, 2011 12:13 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

If KMyMoney really is a problem, just because of the name, there's always Skrooge... Which I find a pretty cool name, even if it also contains a 'k'... By the way, KDE has defaulted to showing the short description and not the name of the application in the start menu for about ten years now.