Otherwise users who know the term "Baloo" might not make the connection, and also in
general it's good to expose our brand names to users rather than hiding them.
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Otherwise users who know the term "Baloo" might not make the connection, and also in
general it's good to expose our brand names to users rather than hiding them.
Previously we've deliberately made a very conscious decision to not throw random backend terms in the user's face.
It makes using a UI harder if there's random made up words in the middle of it.
I don't see a compelling reason to change.
This isn't random; Baloo is a brand name with a logo in progress (D24957). We have a HIG page about this: https://hig.kde.org/style/writing/brandnames.html. Baloo is even mentioned there as an example of a brand name. :)
the TL;DR version is that if we give something a catchy codename that we use to refer to it--especially in communication with users in the form of bug reports, release announcements, and social media comments and postings--we need to accept that it's a brand name and then surface it in the UI so that users can learn it. We already did this for KRunner in Plasma 5.17 (previous it was referred to with the nondescript and non-promo-friendly term "Plasma Search") and nobody complained to my knowledge.
release announcements, and social media comments and postings
Lets be careful about mixing up the users that we interact with vs our actually wider userbase who don't really care about or follow anything KDE. They just use it.
Anyway, I'm not absolutely blocking this, but I do want to share history and previous discussions. I'm confident the old HIG said explicitly not to do this.
I would like more people to weigh in especially @bruns.
I would also say that 'Baloo' means nothing to users, and File search should be used instead. It's an internal name, not really a brand.
It's an internal name that has its own logo and that we use in communication to users in release announcements. It's a widely-used name in social media. Even if we didn't indend for it to be a brand name, it happened anyway, so at this point we can ignore that, or embrace it.
Somehow I also feel Baloo is not a name to be surfaced...