On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:30:32 -0700 David Sterry <da...@sterryit.com> wrote:
> CCs dropped, I assume they read the lists. > > > Yavor Doganov wrote: > > Graziano Sorbaioli wrote: > > > >> Maybe we should have someone doing a libre gnu thunderbird > >> software just as there is a libre gnu firefox one. > >> > >> GNU mail? :) > >> > > > > That would be confused with GNUMail [1], the GNUstep MUA. Plus, > > there alrady is GNU mail, GNU's implementation of the standard mail > > program (from mailutils). > > > > IceCrow, IceRooster or some other Ice$BIRD in the true spirit of the > > "iceweaselization", maybe... > > > It seems to me Ice was an opposite to Fire and Weasel and Cat are > alternate animal names. The corresponding IceCatination would be to > use the opposite of thunder and a different very general name like > bird for example Silentfish or Mutehorse or Peacepig. Or we could try > to make it sound cooler than Thunderbird and abandon this kind of > mimicry altogether. If this is done properly (as an independant project), it'll be best to do it 'the mozilla way' and provide a separate branding directory. If its done inside gNS only, I'll accept 'good enough' for the moment (with a view to making it proper later). > > Of course it should probably be up to the person who does the actual > coding to choose the name rather than the rest of us in the peanut > gallery. Unless its becoming an official project, in which case feedback from peanuts might help :) kk > > -David Sterry (weex) > > -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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