Note this is mostly a historic concern. KDE largely stopped doggedly naming new projects K-something over a decade ago. Yes, there's examples to the contrary, a

Note this is mostly a historic concern. KDE largely stopped doggedly naming new projects K-something over a decade ago. Yes, there's examples to the contrary, and of course there are major projects sensibly sticking by their already-established brands, but plenty of core projects don't follow this scheme anymore (obviously Plasma, for one). It's largely a relic of a time before interoperability-enabling standardization via freedesktop.org specs, when "k = will work well with your desktop" had much more utility to users. The Gnome crowd did the more or less the same thing with g, and also stopped. As others mentioned, plenty of other tech orgs have pulled branding moves like this, be it iSomething or "My Foo", and arguably those provided less actual utility. I would argue this should affect the relative levels of irksomeness. :-)