Am 04.03.2017 um 22:08 schrieb Reindl Harald:
Am 04.03.2017 um 21:50 schrieb Luigi Toscano:
> Reindl Harald ha scritto:
>>
>>
>> Am 04.03.2017 um 21:34 schrieb Gerald B. Cox:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net
>>> <mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>> oh yeah instead maintain / replace a for many years known
>>> application with a clear name introduce a new application with a
>>> idiotic (because pointsless) name - we really live in a great
>>> decade
>>>
>>> Yeah Harald, that crossed my mind also - but my guess is that someone
>>> else developed the "Spectacle" application and either didn't
like the
>>> "KSnapshot" name or wasn't allowed to use it. Contrast that
with
>>> Google
>>> who can't seem to settle for a name: e.g. Google Talk, Hangouts,
>>> Messenger, Allo, Duo, Android Messages
>>
>> projects like KDE *really* should introduce rules that shitty
>> application
>> names which don't give anybody a clue about what the applications is
>> supposed
>> to do are prohibited, especially when consider ot replace knowen and
>> logical
>> named ones
>
> You don't need to know the name of an application which pop ups when
> you press
> "Print".
but i need to know it when i have to fix existing setups whre "print"
after update don't work - there are people who don#t reinstall their
machines and profiles for many years
oh and i need to know what packages are supposed to do when reported by
"dnf leaves" as not required - i tend to cleanup my systems permanently,
maybe one reaosn why my Fedora setup from 2011 still runs fine
> No need to think about strange reasons. You can follow the
story,
> which was
> open and publicly discussed. This is the start of the Spectacle
> (KScreenGenie,
> initially) and the reason to write a new program (which uses relevant
> parts of
> the old code).
>
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2015q2/001374.html
>
> This is the discussion about the renaming:
>
https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=144025072413294&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=144025072413294&w=2 has just a
single follow-up post in the thread and that's it
if there are follow-up posts not replied corerctly somewhere in the
internet i have 2 points:
* people not capable reply to a mail lack qualification for decisions
* your link is useless