On Tuesday at 16:53, Žygimantas Beručka wrote: > If I understand correctly, the "GNOME" itself sucks. Average Joe doesn't > know what "GNU Network Object Model Environment" is, "KDE" makes more > sense in this case, since it stands for "K _Desktop Environment_".
GNOME does NOT mean "GNU Network Object Model Environment" anymore. It used to, now it doesn't. It's a proper name. It's "Gnome" (j/k guys, I do NOT want to get into this as well ;). > I'm for keeping "GUADEC" as it is, if we are going to change it we > actually will HAVE to do the same with "GNOME", because it matches the > same criteria, and is even worse, since GUADEC is easier to explain. Not really. GUADEC is not the nicest name there is. I like both GConf and GnomeConf/GnomeCon/GnomeGetTogether (what are you saying there wasn't a "GnomeGetTogether" one?) proposals. It's just that my conservative side complains about changing the name. (And I have another problem with GConf being our, uhm, GConf, but that's probably my conservative side speaking again). If we really think name change is going to affect our marketing visibility, I am all for it! I realise that this is not something where we should be conservative. But then again, I can imagine next announcement beggining with: "GConf, conference dedicated to advancement of GNOME (the desktop environment of free software systems), previously known as GUADEC (Gnome Users And Developers European Conference), is coming to town!" :) Cheers, Danilo _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
