On Tuesday 02 October 2007 17:04, Olivier Goffart wrote: > Le mardi 2 octobre 2007, Dennis Nienhüser a écrit : > > Rafael Fernández López schrieb: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > On aKademy 2007 at Glasgow I had a very nice talk with Duncan (Kopete > > > project founder), and we were discussing about the term "Metacontact". > > > > > > We wanted to focus Kopete to persons. Probably Metacontact is a > > > not-intuitive way of referring to a person (a person with different > > > accounts yeah, but a person). > > > > > > The word "Metacontact" in this context is probably not needed, and we > > > could rename it to something else, as I said to focus it more to > > > "Persons". > > > > Any reason against naming it "Person" then? Technically we have > > metacontacts that are linked to addressbook entries, and accounts > > belonging to exactly one metacontact. Conceptually, the technical thing > > "metacontact" is a person which ideally already exists in my addressbook. > > > > I wouldn't name it "User" though, as this term is often not only used > > for the person itself, but also their accounts. > > Eh, great topics :-) > > I've heard one user call it "Super Contact". I liked the name, but this > doesn't represent really what is it. > > IMO "MetaContact" should probably renamed simply "Contact", as it is the > term used in KAddressBook AFAIK No, I disagree. The common instant messaging lingo refers to a "contact" as an AIM screenname, or an MS Live account, or a ICQ number, etc. Using "contact" in a way that is so close to--but yet different from--its common usage would cause undue confusion. Also, current Kopete users would be confused when a term they already know changes meaning. > > But the question is now: But how to call the subcontacts ? > "Account" is already taken by the user account. > In fact, why not call it "Address" ? yes, subcontact are only object > contact for the protocol code. But in fact, for the user, they are just > addresse of the metacontact. "Address" is too easily confused with email address.
In my opinion, Kopete should use Contact's (as they are now) contained within Person's (replacing MetaContact). KAddressBook calls a single person a "Contact", which is fine terminology for them, but due to already established instant messaging lingo, this would be too confusing for Kopete to use. - Charles _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
