A question and an opinion

[eraker]

This is just a momentary opinion so please take it for what it's worth.

Why is KDE releasing all of these programs (such as an office program and others) that already have counterparts? They appear to eventually be planning to have a "K" version of everything, but this thought makes me uncomfortable. I know I can select what I want, but if I use KDE, I don't automatically want to be given Koffice and Ktorrent and every other thing that KDE has bundled with the gui. I'm suspicious also that other more adept programs may be pushed out of the mix.

[Kojak]

Most of those apps have been there for ages and you can uninstall them. You are not forced to use them (I don't use KDE apps btw). They are just alternative solutions. Let the user decide if he wants to run Kamil, Thunderbird, Evolution or yet another mailing app. That is the only idea behind it. I don't see anything wrong with that.

One thing is for sure though: Many KDE apps have bad names. Placing a K before every app (Krita, Kmail, Koffice, Kblabla), that is silly imho.

[eraker]

Fair enough. I definitely agree with you on the terrible naming policy.

[techieMoe]

One thing is for sure though: Many KDE apps have bad names. Placing a K before every app (Krita, Kmail, Koffice, Kblabla), that is silly imho.

This is not a problem confined just to KDE; it's an epidemic across all of open-source software. Some examples of applications I consider poorly named:

vi (Visual Editor, with nothing visual about it)
ekiga (GnomeMeeting made more sense to me)
AmaroK (really, where did that come from?)
GIMP (Yes, I know it's an acronym but it's also a sex slave.)
B itchX (Gets filtered every time I type it.)
bicyclerepair (has nothing to do with bicycles)

[Kojak]

Agreed. The most funny of them is perhaps bicyclerepair.

[flipjargendy]

i never understood why vi was called that. It always bothered me.

There are just toooooooo many programs all with names. i think ISO should get involved with naming conventions. Every app used for mailing should be called "mailer". Every program used for networking should be called "networking"

It would make things soooo much easier!

[Juan Pablo]

There is also a lot of useless app that comes by default with KDE. Why an app to learn japanese like kiten by default or kverbos? or AMOR? or KTeaTime?

[techieMoe]

There is also a lot of useless app that comes by default with KDE. Why an app to learn japanese like kiten by default or kverbos? or AMOR? or KTeaTime?

Not to mention that aquarium thing that sits in the task bar on Mepis.

[carlosponti]

its not so much that the aqaurium exists Moe its that its on by DEFAULT that really i think is stupid. its kinda neat except that one little fact.

[fingal]

There is also a lot of useless app that comes by default with KDE. Why an app to learn japanese like kiten by default or kverbos? or AMOR? or KTeaTime?

I wonder if anyone has seriously used Kruler in anger? I know how it could be used, but don't know if it ever is used. By male teenage geeks maybe?

I just stopped using Kmail in favour of Thunderbird as well. I'm moving towards more focused lighter packages which do the job, but no more than that. Not a conscious choice, but I appreciate lighter looking packages these days.