> Our project has a name. It is "GNOME". You may not like it, but that's what > it is. Regarding capitalisation of acronyms: it is acceptable to reduce capitalised acronyms to sentence case if no equivalent word exists, hence "radar" and "laser" etc. But "Gnome", in English, means "unusually small person" or similar. It should always be GNOME to avoid confusion.
> Please, don't screw around with it for your own satisfaction alone -- until > we change our > brand/identity, we must protect what we have. This is the most important point. As a brand name, "GNOME" sucks rocks, principally because of the connotations it has in English. If GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment (a name that was chosen, I am absolutely positive, because it spells out "gnome" when made into an acronym; but for no other reason) why not call it "GDE" instead? (GNU Desktop Environment), or, to avoid confusion with KDE, GNE (GNU Network Environment)? It is my view that GNOME would easily survive a brand-name change. The very fact that we have changed the name (if we do!) may even generate so much publicity and interest that the project will be re-vitalised. But we would have to make our message clear: why are we changing the name? Not because of a flamewar on a mailing list; but because now that GNOME is in the Big League, we realise that our branding, which was fine for the beginnings of the project, needs to change to reflect our professionalism. (Being professional does not imply kowtowing to the running dogs of the capitalist hegemony, by the way!) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
