On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:29:24 -0600
»Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > Thanks. I think it is not a good idea to call Firefox (for some
> > > branding issue) its development codename. Maybe Gentoo should use
> > > Debian's Iceweasel name.  
> > 
> > I agree.  It's confusing that the brand-less name is the same as the
> > development name.
> 
> I don't seen anything about it at bugs.gentoo.org;  you could file a
> bug.  I'm not sure anyone would be motivated to patch it, though.  As
> it is now, (well, AIUI) the USE flag just controls the
> --enable-official-branding switch for compiling and the "Bon Echo" you
> see is just an artifact of the way Mozilla ships its source code.
> 
> I think something other than "Iceweasel" would be preferable,
> since Debian and GNU both have Iceweasel projects.
> 
but 'IceWeasel' is ugly.  Bon Echo is such a nice name.  
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