Re: No more talking about Nepomuk to end users

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Aleix Pol <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Heya,
>>
>> In KDE PIM (during the meeting last year in Osnabrück) it was decided that
>> it would make sense to stop talking about Akonadi to the public. First of
>> all, because Akonadi has gotten a bad rep and second, because it's a
>> technical detail that makes no sense for end users.
>>
>> Work has been put in to remove mentions of Akonadi (and Nepomuk) from the
>> KDE PIM UI and to refer instead to the 'KDE PIM backend'.
>>
>> I don't remember how much, if at all, this was discussed here. I think I
>> wrote a mail but that's probably it. If so I'd hereby like to propose to
>> do
>> the same to Nepomuk. It's a technical detail and in announcements and the
>> like it shouldn't be discussed. It's fine for blogs and other developer
>> centric communication.
>>
>> I already wrote the announcement this way, not thinking about the fact
>> that
>> this was never discussed, and noticed somebody added 'Nepomuk' to all
>> mentions of the 'semantic storage backend'. Noticing how uncomfortable it
>> looks to talk about "nepomuk (semantic storage and search backend)" or
>> "semantic storage and search backend (nepomuk)", I thought this might be a
>> good time :D
>>
>> As far as I can tell, this change has already been done in a few places in
>> the UI: I see the applet mention 'search', 'desktop search' or 'search
>> service'. The menu of the applet still mentions 'Nepomuk controller' and
>> the
>> window shows 'Nepomuk Repository details', as does the control module
>> (which
>> is, however, for 'desktop search') so it'd be nice to have Vishesh and
>> other
>> Nepomuk devs on board on this to start change this in the UI as well.
>>
>> What do others think?
>>
>> /Jos
>>
>
>
> I think it's a great idea, but I don't think it's a kde-promo subject...
> What about [email protected]?
>
> Aleix
>

Jos I agree with your suggestion. However, those technologies may be
appropriate to mention in the context of KDE's technical capabilities,
such as in conference presentations about KDE.

This is a topic for kde-devel. And it's also something that kde-promo
needs to manage in release announcements, Dot stories and the like.

The 4.10 release announcement has been edited accordingly.

Carl

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