On Wednesday 02 March 2011 22:41:04 Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 2. März 2011, 20:34:00 schrieb Stan Goodman:
When annoyed by a substantive argument, the best policy is to find a punctuation mistake.
Or there might be some people that can distinguish between the content of a thread and its style. Both of you failed style-wise. I did not state anything about the content – reading something into it just shows how hard you try.
Please learn to quote, no matter of what topic a thread is.
Sven
In my private view, it is reasonable to expect that names of invented entities in a complex system be somehow related to their function. "Nepomuk", for example, fails that test for me; do you think that it is more informative and mnemonic for most other users? What is it supposed to suggest to say to, say, 80% of the users? 20%? 2%? Same for "Akonadi" and, for that matter, with "Plasma", which already has several related definitions stemming from its Greek root. My dictionary (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate) offers 1) "Something moulded", 2) "Fluid part of blood", 3) "Protoplasm", 4) "Collection of charged particles". It is possible that you can see why this has something to do with desktop GUIs, but user, having this term thrown at him is unlikely to be that talented. I am amazed that both of you have reacted to my observation as you have. And in such an obvious juvenile fashion (snidely calling attention to a misplaced quotation mark, because you have nothing more pertinent to remark). What I learn from it is that you are both involved in the tendency to give weird name of this kind, and have a proprietary interest in them. I didn't know before who was responsible for them. You can rest easy, as I have no power to change names, or to cause you to bear the convenience of users at least as much as your own ego- massaging. On the other hand, my comment was not off-topic for this list, and I freedom of speech is a sacred value where I live and on the Internet. Nobody here is obliged to stand up and salute for everything you do. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org