Renaming amaroK, Amarok

Mark Kretschmann markey at web.de
Thu Jun 1 15:36:57 UTC 2006


On Thursday 01 June 2006 16:15, Harald Sitter wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:06, Max Howell wrote:
> > I spose I got used to the idea.
> >
> > Rationale:
> >
> > Everyone spells it Amarok [1], and AmaroK looks less pretty, like some
> > cleaning product brandname or "Some Movie Sequel IIII"
>
> Firefox, which is the most common used name, is actually called Mozilla
> Firefox - the moz foundation hasn't renamed it though - people even don't
> use mff .... Kubuntu gets often called as KUbuntu, which looks like shit
> and is actually wrong - though also Kubuntu hasn't got renamed.

As Max wrote, one problem is that people often write AmaroK, which is 
completely sick. Really I'd much rather see them write Amarok.

-- 
Mark



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