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0 pointsgroovybits6mo ago0 comments

Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention until the late 2000s, early 2010s.

You had apps like Konqueror (web browser, file manager), KMail (email client), Kompose (music score editor), KImages (later rebranded to Krita), and KDevelop (software dev IDE).

Modern KDE apps dropped the 'K' prefix and moved to a more recognizable scheme, like: Falkon (web browser), Dolphin (file manager), and Okular (document viewer).

As you can see, its now a mix of whether the app keeps the 'K' in the name. Some do not.

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CaptainOfCoit6mo ago

> Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention until the late 2000s, early 2010s.

Wow, what a coincident that parent just happened to suggest the identical naming convention. What are the chances?

vasvir6mo ago

Also spectacle for screenhshots... It took me a while to not try find kscreenshot

cjmoran6mo ago

Spectacle pops up as the first result in KDE's app launcher when I start typing "snipping tool." Props to whomever decided to add that alias.

Zero props to whomever decided that punctuation from the outer sentence should be injected inside quotation marks.

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