On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 07:31 +1000, Michael Lamothe wrote: > Down to business, I've written a nice little DVB client using > libgnome. Now, I'm not very creative when it comes to names so I > called it 'GNOME TV'. If/when I ever distribute the application (GPL'd > of course) am I allowed to use the word "GNOME" in its title, or is it > trademarked. Is it a bad idea, in general, to use GNOME in the > title.
I don't know about the trademark issue, but in general it's not usually a great idea to call your app "GNOME Foo" because: - Your app will probably run quite happily on KDE and other desktop environments too, so the fact that it has anything to do with GNOME is mostly irrelevant to your users. - If everybody called their GNOME apps "GNOME Foo", then they'd all be listed under "G" on the Applications menu, which makes them harder to find. (See also http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-names) What you choose to call the binary is a separate issue; we do still have a lot of apps called $EPREFIX/bin/gnome-foo, and I'm not sure if we actually have any guidelines about that. (I'd like to think that we do, though.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
