Bug 479039 - Don't call Plasma's widgets "plasmoids".
Summary: Don't call Plasma's widgets "plasmoids".
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
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Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2023-12-26 17:04 UTC by Dave92f1
Modified: 2024-02-16 04:18 UTC (History)
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Description Dave92f1 2023-12-26 17:04:25 UTC
Don't call Plasma's widgets "plasmoids". If KDE is stuck with the term for historical reasons, gradually deprecate it.

The term "widget" is an existing well-known term used across many operating systems. It applies to KDE "plasmoids" as well as it does anywhere else.

Adopting cute, unique, special names for existing standard concepts just makes KDE more off-putting and confusing to new users. (This is not the only example, but is one of the most egregious.)

If a concept has a well-known name, use it. Save invention for ideas that need new names.

You wouldn't call files "Plasma streams", would you? Or call icons "hieroglyphs", would you? That would be obviously confusing, since everyone already knows what "files" and "icons" are.

/rant
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-02-16 04:18:35 UTC
See https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/issues/53. The discussion is being had there.