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NoTiG
September 11th, 2006, 04:57 AM
ok not to start a flameware... but its funny that KDE's best app (amaroK) doesnt start with a K :P Moral of the story? Rebel against the norm!
aysiu
September 11th, 2006, 05:03 AM
Ah, but it has a capital K at the end.
Wolki
September 11th, 2006, 06:04 AM
Ah, but it has a capital K at the end.

Not anymore since 1.4.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_%28audio%29
Jucato
September 11th, 2006, 08:57 AM
KDE has started to do away with the unkonventional naming and spelling of some apps, starting with Amarok and Okular. Of course, some apps (Konqueror, KOffice, KWord, etc.) are already too popular/known to be changed.

Some of the KDE apps are real words in some foreign language, like Krita. Kopete (pronounced as "koh-peh-teh") is from the word "copete".

Btw, I just don't get why people seem to despise seeing names like Akregator, or Konqueror, or Krita, but seem perfectly fine with gThumb, or gconf-editor, or gSomething. Oh the irony... :D
FISHERMAN
September 11th, 2006, 09:12 AM
Btw, I just don't get why people seem to despise seeing names like Akregator, or Konqueror, or Krita, but seem perfectly fine with gThumb, or gconf-editor, or gSomething. Oh the irony... :D
Probably because GNOME, unlike KDE, doesn't have a letter-fetish and only occasionally uses it.

Totem, Rhythmbox, Liferea, Epiphany, Evolution,...
insane_alien
September 11th, 2006, 01:04 PM
its because amaroK is actually Korama the developers are from on of the mirrors. ;)
smelly_sox
September 11th, 2006, 01:19 PM
K what?
Brunellus
September 11th, 2006, 02:54 PM
Klearly a breaK from KDE naming Konventions.
Jucato
September 11th, 2006, 03:07 PM
Probably because GNOME, unlike KDE, doesn't have a letter-fetish and only occasionally uses it.

Totem, Rhythmbox, Liferea, Epiphany, Evolution,...

Only these more "famous" and recent ones. But there are a lot of GNOME and GTK apps that use a g* naming convention as well. The differences is that GNOME/GTK uses something like gName, while KDE uses either a KName or a K wherever it's convenient (like Kontact, Konqueror, etc.)
3rdalbum
September 11th, 2006, 03:55 PM
With Gnome too, some programs begin with "gnome" instead of just "g". Like Gnomebaker. Some GTK-based programs begin with "gtk" - like Gtkpod.

Also, some GNU programs begin with the "g" - like gTypist.Some deskto-agnostic programs begin with "x" - like XMMS.

It's just that all KDE programs that have a letter fetish always use the K.