Renaming amaroK, Amarok

Bonne Eggleston b.eggleston at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 07:08:07 UTC 2006


I don't care what it's called

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:54 pm, Stefan Bogner wrote:
>I couldn't agree more :)
>
>Cheers,
>Stefan
>
>Am Freitag, 2. Juni 2006 08:12 schrieb Reigo Reinmets:
>> WTF Renaming amaroK????
>>
>> Are you nuts?
>>
>> Although just changing the capitalized letters, i still find it rather bad
>> idea! Why? Well, amaroK is not a very young application, it has a rather
>> good history, very big userbase and quite a fun development team. Now,
>> changing the name is something you can do in the early stage of the
>> application development, amaroK is sure as hell passed that stage!
>>
>> Secondly, i personaly think that AmaroK is just ugly and comes from old
>> habit of typing names with big capitalized letter in the front. but Amarok
>> in the otherhand i like.. totaly sick imho.. i mean.. compare them:
>> amaroK
>> Amarok
>>
>> While sure the second name is a lot more Normal, well.. amaroK is not
>> NORMAL.. i mean the application, amaroK is suberb! it deserves to stand
>> out!
>>
>> Just my $0.02 but i'm all against changing the official name.. so what if
>> people miss-spell it in the irc? not even worth bitchslapping.. sure when
>> they miss-spell it in the public article we should notify the author and
>> let him change it, but thats not that big problem either..
>>
>> i totaly hate the idea!
>>
>> Have a nice summer! The June has arrived :)
>>
>> Reigo Reinmets
>>
>> On Thursday 01 June 2006 21:08, Nick Tryon wrote:
>> > I like the quirkily kapitalized name, personally.
>> >
>> > Should we perhaps have multiple 'correct' capitalizations like gaim
>> > does (albeit for different reasons)?
>> >
>> > http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q1
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