KDE Programs Naming Convention

[WANSTALL Malcolm]

I gave my friend, a very educated young lass, a live CD of Kubuntu as
she was wanting me to downgrade her Vista laptop to XP and I thought it
was my civic duty to show her another option. I said "Play around with
it for a day and see if it does what you want" which, after some
convincing, she did.

When I returned she said she wanted XP because Kubuntu was illogical
(which of course fried my brain since I find it 100% _more_ intuitive
than most other OSs) so I pressed her to list the things that caused her
to say that. They were:

1/ The font names were all different (Okay, can't help that one but I'm
sure we could work through relearning that little pest) AND

2/ Things had stupid names (i.e. Kontact, Konquerer, Kolf etc...)

It got me thinking...that is one of the things that first annoyed me
about KDE, that it is _cool_ to name your program starting with a "K". I
realise that it serves a small purpose (identifying KDE vs Gnome
programs and ducking TM issues) but surely to anyone trying to MOVE to
Kubuntu, it would look a bit...immature (like putting "z" on the end of
words to make you 1337). It just feels like and in-joke that needs to
die if KDE wants to be taken even more seriously.

Does anyone else see this as a bit of a marketing blunder and is there
_any_ community push to change this? Surely good names like Amarok,
Rosegarden and Bluefish aren't that hard to come up with...they
certainly make a better first impression on people new to KDE/Linux.