>
>
>> It would be harmless to change it to "Gnome" if the marketing team
>> decided
>> that this is a good idea.
>
> Except that a large proportion of the project would like it to remain the
> way it is. We've gone over this before, numerous times.
OK. Then I misjudged the general opinion.
Mur
> It would be harmless to change it to "Gnome" if the marketing team decided
> that this is a good idea.
Except that a large proportion of the project would like it to remain the
way it is. We've gone over this before, numerous times.
- Jeff
--
linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 16:47 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
>
>> > What is GNOME? We seem to fond of asking that question these days.
>> The
>> > answer is simple: it is the GNU Network Object Model Environment.
>>
>> That is never ever the answer, and hasn't been for a long time. If it's
>> anywh
> But "GNOME" also means "gnome", i.e. a small, dumpy, cutesy-stupid type
> fellow. Following Murray's repeated points about brand association, is
> that the type of image we want?
well maybe it's not the type of image we want, but imho it's way too
late to change that name: it's been 8 years sin
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:16 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
> > Oh! Then why do we capitalise it? Is it still an acronym? If so, what
> > do the letters stand for?
>
> who cares about that? several brands are usually spelled in
> uppercase, and that doesn't seem to undermine their popularity or
>
> Oh! Then why do we capitalise it? Is it still an acronym? If so, what
> do the letters stand for?
who cares about that? several brands are usually spelled in
uppercase, and that doesn't seem to undermine their popularity or
acceptance...
--
Santiago Roza
Departamento I+D - Thymbra
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On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 16:47 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > What is GNOME? We seem to fond of asking that question these days. The
> > answer is simple: it is the GNU Network Object Model Environment.
>
> That is never ever the answer, and hasn't been for a long time. If it's
> anywhere on our
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:03 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
>
>> Without straying too far from the topic - What is GNOME ? Or as someone
>> recently asked me in one session for college kids (WTF is guh-nome)
>
> With respect to the recent discussion on slogans and general discussion
> of a
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:03 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> Without straying too far from the topic - What is GNOME ? Or as someone
> recently asked me in one session for college kids (WTF is guh-nome)
With respect to the recent discussion on slogans and general discussion
of about "Real
