On Jan 3, 2008 3:05 PM, David Lloyd <lloy0076 at adam.com.au> wrote: > > Brian, > > Brian Cameron wrote: > > Note quite true. JDS is the "desktop". This includes GNOME, but also > > includes other desktop applications and interfaces which are not a part > > of the GNOME umbrella. For example: > > > > - Firefox, Thunderbird > > - RealPlayer > > - SourceForge applications like gtkam, gphoto, gthumb > > - FreeDesktop interfaces such as D-Bus, GStreamer, cairo, etc. > > - Other dependencies which are used by the desktop, but are not a part > > of GNOME, such as Xiph.org codecs. > > Absolutely none of the above has anything to do with Java...which > explains why the JDS' full name is the "Sun JAVA Desktop System". > > I can see why Sun mightn't want to call it GNOME by why can't they just > drop the JAVA? It's not a JAVA desktop system, it's a desktop system > that is a GNOME enhanced by Sun...so why not something like: > > * "Sun Desktop System" > > It's more truthful, it's actually got the right branding and might I say > one could easily arguable it's not as misleading as the current moniker!
You're talking to the wrong people. Sun's marketing department chose the name, not the engineers. Complaining about it here is "preaching to the choir" :) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
