Re: "Rebranding" KDE PIM?

On Thursday 12 August 2010 12:44:51 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> On Thursday 12 August 2010 10:59:53 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 August 2010 01:03:22 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > > Personally, I see KDE PIM more as a work group and Kontact as the
> > > product.
> >
> > That's exactly what the KDE PIM community decided a couple of years ago.
> > Kontact is the brand for the product used in external communication. KDE
> > PIM is the name of the community creating Kontact.
>
> Ah, OK. Then maybe that decision should be recommunicated because I quite
> often read sentences like "KDEPIM 4.5 delayed", "KDEPIM Mobile announced",
> "Become a fan of KDEPIM on Facebook", etc.

I agree that this should be communicated more intensively.
"Kontact" does not seem to be the coolest name a software family
like this could have, but it is way better than "KDE PIM", *pim or *groupware
in my view.

Now that we are close to getting Kontact-Mobile somewhere and the next
generation of Kontact out for Desktops (fully Akonadi ported),
if we wanted to rebrand Kontact or use several brands for the KDE PIM
applications, this would be a good opportunity.
(Which was pointed out to my by Till and he's right.)

Note that for Kontact-Mobile on N900 there actually is not going to be any 
KDE Kontact anymore in the orginal sense as there is no overview shell
as a bracket for all the applications. They stand on their own, so it would
be something like "Kontact-Mobile Mail", "Kontact-Mobile Organizer"
or "Kontact-Mobile Addressbook", probably even abbreviated to "Mail", 
"Organizer", "Addresses" or so. Given the technical possibilities of
Akonadi, we probably will see recognition of single application like
KMail and KOrgnizer erode as their functionality is distributed more
and more through out a KDE Desktop. This is why I guess it would be better
to even use one brand to strenghten all those applications under one umbrella
and currently "Kontact" is the best brand we have for it as far as I can say.

Best Regards,
Bernhard

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