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GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name

Posted by timothy on from the keyboard-chooser-by-any-other-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The developer of the KDE System Settings application has launched a formal complaint against GNOME for renaming 'Control Center' to 'System Settings' in GNOME 3.0. This developer is demanding that GNOME immediately change the name of their control panel area. Developers on both sides are now discussing this act."

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  1. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    RTFA. The real issue is that duplicating the name is causing system conflicts for those with both installed.

  2. Re:seems to be about a name clash by SomeKDEUser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uhh, I also comes from a long background of GNOME ignoring KDE, and acting as though they exist in a vaccuum. Also, they knew about the naming issue.

    So the guy has reasons to be miffed: GNOME, at this stage lives in a bizzare delusion that they are an OS, and not just a DE. And this attitude is clearly grating: they seem to believe that what they do is the standard, and that probably KDE is something like windowsblind is (was?) for MS windows. And of course, the KDE dev have stopped assuming good faith, because their is none.

  3. Re:This is ridiculous! by bhcompy · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's that word again; "lighter". Why are things so much lighter in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?

  4. Re:This is ridiculous! by mcgrew · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's the politically correct term for "not so damned fat and bloated", although "leaner" might be more PC.

    I thought it was silly too until I rtfa. KDE is right, it will cause problems for folks using both.

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