Citát Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:01:40 +0000, Nicolas Roard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > > - If you have an idea for a name, go on ! > > - the only "limit" is that we would like a real name, not an acronyme > > (KDE, GNU..), at most a composed name.. and of course it should sound > > nice, etc., etc. > > - Quentin for example proposed "Resonance" which is quite cool imho, > > but we need to decide that together. > > > > So, reactions ? > > > > Although I don't care about the name too much, > I do like the "Etoile". >
I like the Étoilé, it looks and sounds clean. Other words related to 'Étoilé' (star) can be: bright, shiny, elegant, calm, hope-bringing... Or if for no other reasons, then at least for the reason that it has accents :o))) But seriously, the resonance sounds too hard and evokes negative feelings. Also the resonance, as majority of people understand it, is usualy unpleasant effect. I would suggest some word for a nice object or a word from some kind of art, for example music. Well, in fact GNUstep is kind of art, isn't it? If we pick a word, the word should be "surronded" by other nice and pleasant words. Here are few examples of words, where we can start to search through the network of words to find appropriate one: NOUNS (with some translations that do not sound nor look too bad) Group: music Words: melody, concerto, rhapsody (already used), symphony, sonata Comments: not only for musical application, nice feelings Group: earth, heaven Words: star/étoilé/hviezda, world/svet, universe, objects, infinity, immensity, planet, moon/luna, sun Group: elements Words: water/aqua/eau/voda, fire/feu, air, earth/zem Comments: They are variants to Aqua and this will make the name less original Group: objects/building blocks Words: stones, bricks, blocks, rocks Group: land Words: forest/les, ant-hill, meadow(s), field(s), path/chemin I would suggest to avoid: concrete animals, flowers, technical objects or body parts. They can be names of ones preferences/likes/dislikes, for example, cats vs. dogs. ADJECTIVES Either the noun itself should evoke nice adjectives or we can add one. STIMULATION Definitely, the name should stimulate one or more of the following: * friendliness * progress (as NeXT) * evolution * brightness (emotional) * openness * modularity For example, for the Étoilé/star: * friendliness, brightness - direct possible associations * openness, evolution, progress - universe * modularity - less evident, but universe is "composed of objects" - stars :o) Sun is a star too, it is warm, brings energy to most of the life here... STORIES 1. Étoilé Geeks can think of a different story: stars are live objects in an open object universe. Each star has a system around it with planets - smaller objects, where life is. If the solar system is like an application with core and surronding object then space-travel is inter-application communication. Distributed notifications are interplanetary television broadcasting. Distributed objects use space-teleports. Internet is like whole universe, where one machine is like galaxy of stars. Inter-galactic travel is communication with distant machines over the internet. 2. Rhapsody (even existing name) Developers are like composers. Maestro [application] is performing his music in the orchestra [the GNUstep environment]. The applications are performing in harmony and produce nice melody [elegant output of applications]. CONCLUSION So, turn on your fantasy, create other similar lists and try to crawl the words. Use www.thesaurus.com for crawling, for example. In addition, try to translate the words to other languages to see how it will sound and look like. And do not be affraid of accents. Finally try to create a nice story, if you can. If you can not, then think of another word. Have a nice sunny day, Stefan Urbanek -- http://stefan.agentfarms.net First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi
