2w ago

KDE devs are great at naming things!

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Honestly I dislike a lot of the KDE default app names. Default apps should have simple, descriptive names.
The fact that the file explorer is called "Dolphin" instead of just "File Explorer" or "Files" or something descriptive just makes KDE harder to use for no good reason.
I wish I could just easily reconfigure the name and icon of the default apps so it's fixable at least.
- For me it's the opposite, generic names make searching for issues on the web stupidly difficult.
  No one has problems figuring out that Dolphin is the file explorer, and if you search for "file" in the KDE menu, it returns Dolphin as a result.
  
  I find it hard to believe "File Manager KDE" would be unsearchable for, given that it already returns results related to Dolphin. I just don't believe this is difficult at all, sorry.
  I shouldn't have to figure out the file manager is called Dolphin, the name should be descriptive by itself. The fact that you have to rely on the keyword search to figure it out is imo just bad naming.
  
  We could get best of both worlds and put K before the names.
  kfiles kbrowser, kedit, if kde ever made a c compiler for some reason we could name it kcc.
  
  I never understood the GNOME logic rename Totem, Nautilus, Epiphany, etc... Granted, I don't understand much about GNOME.
- They should just rename Gnome to Desktop Environment and rewrite it in ~~Rust~~ Programming Language
  
  The name "Programming language" is already taken by HTML though
  
  I do now want an "ADE" written in APL
- I don't remember where, but you can configure the app launcher to show the descriptive name instead of the app name by default.
  
  True, but this then applies to all apps. And for some bizarre reason if GenericName is not available the fallback is Comment, so tons of apps turn into a long string of text that gets cut off.
  Like, look at this:
  Top row is perfect, but then you get to Steam...
  
  In the launcher's own settings
- They are searchable by descriptive names, they shouldn't have 'simple, descriptive names'.
- I wish I could just easily reconfigure the name and icon of the default apps so it's fixable at least.
  you can have overrides for .desktop files, and the name is stored there
  
  Keyword "easily". Having to figure out the scheme for those files and where to exactly put them is not user-friendly. And from searching online, there's vague edgecases that cause it to not get recognized by the task bar properly.
  But it is neat trick for those who tinker a bit more I suppose.
- It doesn't even have a k in the name!!
- I always confuse it with dolphin emulator in my package managers.

Yay!

is this the drop down terminal thingy?
- Yes, I think it's called Yukkake
  
  yakuake, for "yet another kuake", from "kuake", which is a kde-ification of "quake". because the console in quake dropped down like that.
  
  There's a similar one named guake.

They knew what they were doing.

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