Le 31 mars 05, à 00:15, Nicolas Roard a écrit :
Hm, but we're not doing a desktop for the "americans".. are we ?
I'm not sure the fact that the name doesn't sound american is in
itself a bad thing;
after all it's simple, short, easy to remember ;-) -- and we're not
considering the
"american market" : it's a worldwide free software project after all
;-)
Frankly, I expect people to be more interested by the possibilities of
the system
than by its name ! else nobody would use KDE or Exposé ;-)
To be clearer, as my response was a bit epidermic:
- of course we think about americans
- but they are not alone in the world, hopefully this project will be
used in different countries
- what sound "normal" to an american will sound "exotic" to somebody
else (and vice/versa)
- etc.
And, having an exotic name isn't particurlaly a bad thing in my
opinion. It's even a good thing
marketing-wise, if the name is not too alien..
On the other hand, I'm not "pushing" for étoilé because it's french --
I frankly, frankly don't care.
It's just that it seemed better than the other propositions -- even if
Resonance was not bad, I think
étoilé sound better -- and it's shorter, a good thing for a name. Not
talking about the couple of
existing Resonance free software projects.
So in short, as the majority prefer étoilé or don't care, we should
just keep it, unless somebody come
with a better proposition. Come on, we won't spend a month discussing
that, it starts to be boring.
--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
