Bug 388661

Summary: Uncommon name in GUI / Documentation and on kde.org/applications/system
Product: [Applications] partitionmanager Reporter: Burkhard Lück <lueck>
Component: generalAssignee: Andrius Štikonas <andrius>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: ashark, mail
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Burkhard Lück 2018-01-07 22:25:45 UTC 
partitionmanager has a strange name compared to all other apps in the kde repos.

"KDE Partition Manager"

No other app has KDE in its name and usually no whitespace in the name

The KDE in the name does not make sense

There is also a special entry in kdoctools, see
https://cgit.kde.org/kdoctools.git/tree/src/customization/en/user.entities#n34

Proposal:
simply use Partitionmanager as app name in GUI and documentation and on kde.org/applications

Then the entity partman can be removed from kdoctools/tree/src/customization/*/user.entities and added to kdoctools.git/tree/src/customization/entities/general.entities, where all other 
apps get their name for the docbooks
Comment 1 Julian Steinmann 2018-01-08 20:34:19 UTC 
It might make sense to name it KParted, as the Gnome counterpart is named GParted. (Although PartitionManager is also totally fine, both are better than the current name)
Comment 2 Andrius Štikonas 2018-02-15 02:00:31 UTC 
(In reply to XYQuadrat from comment #1)
> It might make sense to name it KParted, as the Gnome counterpart is named
> GParted. (Although PartitionManager is also totally fine, both are better
> than the current name)

KParted is probably a bad name. It strongly implies that (lib)parted is used.
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2018-03-01 01:16:58 UTC 
If at all, it should be KPartEd, not KParted. If KPartEd suggests that it uses libparted, using KPartitionEd or KPartEditor could be an option.

See also https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/7p00dd/name_of_kde_partition_manager/
Comment 4 Andrius Štikonas 2018-03-01 01:25:46 UTC 
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #3)
> If at all, it should be KPartEd, not KParted. If KPartEd suggests that it
> uses libparted, using KPartitionEd or KPartEditor could be an option.
> 
> See also
> https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/7p00dd/name_of_kde_partition_manager/

I was thinking about writing to kde devel list too to ask there. Even though I maintain partitionmanager right now, I feel that it should be a wider consensus amongst the KDE devs, not my decision alone. After all I am not the original author.

But right now other things were taking priority (both IRL outside partitionmanager, and also KAuth work in partitionmanager, so I haven't thought about this issue).