Re: "Rebranding" KDE PIM?

On Sunday 15 August 2010 19:39:51 Justin wrote:
> > PIM, or Personal Information Manager, became commonly used among office 
> > workers and businessmen  in the UK in the late 1980s, so I was surprised
> > to  hear that many people don't know the term.
> >
> > 
> 
> Groupware is more common than PIM in the states but neither is that great
> for end user terms.  
> 
> Most people use webmail these days if they're a home user and MS Outlook in
> the office. Outlook is branded as just that...Outlook. So I'm in agreement
> that for public marketing efforts we should not talk about the individual
> parts and should instead focus in how Kontact is our email suite. You
> shouldn't really have to tell users it comes with a calendar and way to
> track contacts. People expect those features to be there now.  There
> aren't really any successful email clients that don't have those things
> integrated. 

Actually, "contact suite" more precisely defines it.  Perhaps we should stick 
with Kontact, described as a contact suite, and change the name of the 
component to Addressbook instead of Contacts, since that seems to be the term 
most understood.

Anne
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