On 11/16/05, Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > I have been considering for some time changing Gorm's name to something else. > I believe that some people might find the name a little awkward and some, > particularly on slashdot, commented on it.
So? I don't think those idiots (pardon my French) on Slashdot are that important. > In spite of the fact that other Open Source/Free Software apps have odd names, > GIMP being possibly the most glaring example, some people seem to dislike the > Gorm name. I'm not partial to GIMP, sounds like "whimp" but that's the name they chose and that's it. > I wanted to take the opportunity now, rather than later, to ask if anyone has > any suggestions they would like to make regarding the name of the application. > My personal favorite, if the name were to be changed, is InterfaceCreator > since > this goes very well with ProjectCenter. On Cocoa you have PB and IB and on > GNUstep you have PC and IC. :) GNUstep ain't Cocoa/OSX. I don't see a point in mimicking too many of Apple's ideas. What will be next? Use gSomething (gChat) analogous to iSomething (iChat) ??? > Anyway... please let me know if you have any substantive (meaning not silly, > stupid or patently unimaginative) ideas regarding a new name. [...] > P.S. I personally like the Gorm name [...] Keep "Gorm" and if *others* do not like the name *you* prefer, screw them. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
