Re: No more talking about Nepomuk to end users

Anne Wilson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On 21/01/13 10:02, Jos Poortvliet 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?
> 
The thought of trying to sort out that on UserBase fills me with
horror.  Who is going to volunteer to help?

Anne
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