I am OK with the KmyMoney, but the 2 definately has to go. It screws everything up. It in my opinion leads people to assume this is the 2nd version of KmyMoney.

While I love KDE, there are others that avoid applications that start with "K" just because they may prefer GNOME.

Why not just MyMoney?

This is a KDE application and as such must start with a 'K' to maintain tradition. The application keeps track of my money so 'MyMoney' is absolutely logical and descriptive and intuitive. One could not go past 'KMyMoney'. I think the '2' is now redundant, by two releases of KDE. Change for the sake of change achieves nothing but confusion. Tradition is important.

Graeme.

Actually there are many new KDE applications that don't start with a K, like Quassel, Dolphin, and Plasma. Some would say that starting an app name with a K is living in the past.

Starting applications with a K for "tradition" alienates new users, especially users that are new to linux.

While KMyMoney can work in a gnome environment, and many others, it thrives when used in a full KDE environment, it will do even more so with the new version. Removing the K would send a wrong signal. Keep in mind that we are slowly moving into a tighter integration with KDE. The new version is in the KDE SVN, for example.
Also, the effort to change the name is not worth it for just removing a letter.

I don't think that removing the 'K' sends the wrong signal.

What you need to think of is "who are we writing the software for?"

Is it for "KDE users"? Or is it for anyone? Sure, KMyMoney2 uses the KDE libraries, but don't alienate the other users. Removing a 'K' isn't saying "we don't use KDE any more" or "we don't care about KDE any more", but it does say "we are trying to be more inclusive" -- IMO.

"who are we writing the software for?" Take a look at our new splash screen.

As I said, the effort involved in changing the name is not worth it just to remove the K.
MyMoney, KMoney, are simply not great enough options compared to what we have. That's it.

I voted 'change it' on the grounds that the '2' should be dropped. However the suggestion from gegechris99 does make a lot of sense:

gegechris99 wrote:So why not change to KMyMoney4 to go along with KDE4. Later on, the tradition could continue (KMyMoney5 with KDE5).

However if you really want to move away from KMyMoney these are my favourites so far:

Kash, BanKer, Kapital from hook
inKaso from neverendingo

Other suggestions:

Kashbook or CashbooK
BanKo
RecKoner (yeah, it's rubbish, I know)

It's important to keep the 'K' connection, promoting KDE is a good thing. It was KMM that switched me onto KDE in the first place.

A bit feeback on some suggestions given so far (as names are already in use):

Kash
Kapital

New suggestion (though I still like KMyMoney):

DariK

Some history-based suggetions:

Hawala (as one of the first financial systems)

Macella or Macellum (origin of today's word "Bank")

Trapezus (place of first money-changing activity, today's name Trabzon)

Dalton (referencing the famous bank robber gang)

KFinance sounds better
Kashier
Kash
Akounts (or Akount Manager)
Akountant

Personally I like the idea of using a historical currency as the name.

I especially like...

Aksumite

Very distinctive imho. Sounds cool, has that whole k in there kind of like amarok or whatever.

I guess the downfall is no one really knows what the program would do by its name alone, but usually the name isn't the definition of what things do these days on linux. If that were the case I'd call it Personal Banking

What about short and simple Coin (not Koin, please, "K" in application names should be abolished).

Hei Ku wrote:While KMyMoney can work in a gnome environment, and many others, it thrives when used in a full KDE environment, it will do even more so with the new version. Removing the K would send a wrong signal. Keep in mind that we are slowly moving into a tighter integration with KDE. The new version is in the KDE SVN, for example.
Also, the effort to change the name is not worth it for just removing a letter.

I really strongly disagree with you on that. I understand the importance of tradition in a community as vibrant as KDE's, but it's Koverdone Kto Kthe Kpoint Kof Kbeing Kreally Kobnoxious Kto Ka Klot Kof Kusers.

I'd like to think that KDE users are smart enough to pick applications more intelligently than opening up their package manager, sorting by name, and browsing down to "K." What the superfluous K communicates to me as a user is that the application is a bog-standard program that brings nothing new to the table but K-isms. Is that what you want to communicate?

+1 for making application name a little bit more streamlined.

I really like previous suggestions:
1) Coin
2) Inkaso
3) MyMoney

"K" in name is really not needed.