Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

On 12/20/2010 6:13 AM, Michael Wheatland wrote:
> On 20/12/2010 7:03 PM, "Samuel Mehrbrodt"<s.mehrbrodt@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they
> > describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which
> > will be known and names of the applications should help to find the
> > application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate the
> > names of the applications like Google Docs does.
> > So we could have:
> > Text
> > Table
> > Presentation
> > Drawing
> > Formula
> I like the idea but you have used a mix of nouns and adjectives. I also
> think that calc does far more than 'tables', spreadsheet would be more
> descriptive if you wanted to use nouns.

All of these can be nouns, though it would more often be Document than Text (but all of the ODF 
objects are referred to as documents, so that won't work here). But I agree that Spreadsheet would 
be a better choice. With the original set here, people trying to create a spreadsheet would most 
likely try Formula. We also need Base or Database.

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