Rename KDE Plasma pre installed apps to be more user friendly

[M.Karrde]

@leandrokemp

GNOME does the same with some apps, eg. File Manager (Nautilus) - on the desktop it’s named File Manager, but if you go to the about page, you can see its actual name (Nautilius).

The funny thing, I have installed some GNOME application that use the GNOME naming convention like “Archive Manager” (in addition to Ark because some exotic archives that work better with one or the other) or “Character Map” (because KRunner recommended that to me and not KCharMap), for example, and if KDE now does the same I would have several duplicate apps showing the exact same name and had to check the About page to be sure which is which, at least until memorizing its Icon and differentiate it by that.

Would not recommend at all.

[leandrokemp]

@claydoh

Also to consider, being Linux, what about those who might install Thunar, Nemo, or PCManFM --possibly provided when installing a second Desktop Environment. So we’d have more than one “File Manager” entry.

Then that would their choice to install Thunar, etc. It wouldn’t be installed by default.

@claydoh

Also fwiw a lot of the items in the example list are not ‘default’ items, but this will depends on what the distro either provides as their defualt, or the specific collections in various meta-packages they provide

Oh my bad. Doing it just for the ‘default’ apps would be enough, in my opinion

[leandrokemp]

I agree. As you mentioned Kwrite and Konsole would be the main ones.
The KDE prefix makes sense as you mentioned.

@krake

In their case newer generation implementations already do it differently, e.g. Merkuro Mail and Merkuro Calendar

Dumb question: why is the prefix Merkuro and not KDE? I’m asking as I don’t know the background behind the Merkuro name.

[leandrokemp]

That would have been your choice to install it. It wouldn’t be a default experience. Then you could go to the “Edit Applications” and change the name as you like

[krake]

@leandrokemp

why is the prefix Merkuro and not KDE?

I think it is both.

KDE is the “vendor name”, Merkuro is the “suite name”.

Mekuro started out as just the calendar, so that was its application name,

They then added email capability and decided to create a PIM suite of apps with a common name and sub names for each category.

At least that is my interpretation

[M.Karrde]

@leandrokemp

go to the “Edit Applications” and change the name as you like

With a few manually installed apps, like in my case, sure.

But if someone new to Linux just installed a “GNOME Distro” and additionally wants to give KDE on the same System as well a try, or even the other way around.
Suddenly now having nearly everything, for someone new virtually indistinguishable, double in both Desktop environments at the same time, that would I (not) call a heck of a “Experience”.