T11096: First-class user & developer documentation centralized on a portal

skadinna added a comment. Hi David! Nice to meet you. I'm very glad to hear you're interested in improving KDE's documentation. To make this goal a bit more achievable, we'd have to rewrite it and make it more focused. Instead of trying to build a whole new solution for docs, the goal

D22894: Rename "Desktop Effects" to "Graphical Effects"

ngraham added a comment. Ah. My claim is that when your typical user sees the word "desktop", they don't think of the generic concept of the desktop metaphor (which is a developer concept). They think of the specific thing with the wallpaper where they put their files and folders. With

D22894: Rename "Desktop Effects" to "Graphical Effects"

zzag added a comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor REPOSITORY R108 KWin BRANCH desktop-to-graphical (branched from master) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D22894 To: ngraham, #vdg, #kwin, GB_2 Cc: zzag, GB_2, kwin, kde-doc-english, LeGast00n, sbergeron,

D22894: Rename "Desktop Effects" to "Graphical Effects"

ngraham added a comment. In D22894#506688 , @zzag wrote: > > - Inappropriate use of the word "Desktop." In the typical user's understanding, the desktop is the thing with a wallpaper and icons on it. > > "Desktop" is a metaphor. "Desktop

D22894: Rename "Desktop Effects" to "Graphical Effects"

zzag added a comment. > - Inappropriate use of the word "Desktop." In the typical user's understanding, the desktop is the thing with a wallpaper and icons on it. "Desktop" is a metaphor. "Desktop background" is the proper way to address such clients. > - Inconsistent terminology:

D22894: Rename "Desktop Effects" to "Graphical Effects"

ngraham added a comment. In general I don't think it's a valid argument that you should leave something alone just because people are used to it. If it's already good, then that's the reason not to change it. But if people have gotten used to something bad, then changing it is definitely

D22894: Rename "Desktop Effects" to "Graphical Effects"

zzag added a comment. > Because KWin maintainers have indicated in D14561 Small correction: I'm not KWin maintainers. REPOSITORY R108 KWin BRANCH desktop-to-graphical (branched from master) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D22894

D22894: Rename "Desktop Effects" to "Graphical Effects"

zzag added a comment. -1, sorry. I don't see any reason to change the name. As I said previously, people started using "desktop effects" long time ago. Bug reports, news articles, forum posts and so on use "desktop effects." Deviating from this terminology perhaps isn't a good idea.

D22880: Rename "Plasma Theme" to "Plasma Style"

ngraham marked an inline comment as done. ngraham added inline comments. INLINE COMMENTS > GB_2 wrote in kcm_desktoptheme.desktop:41 > You forgot to change the name here too. Oops, sorry! Fixed in 2bedabd96d37c48a67a80dcc48f3368b1e9713ef