Renaming amaroK, Amarok

Max Howell max.howell at methylblue.com
Thu Jun 1 15:59:57 UTC 2006


I reacted the same when it was proposed at K3M, but since I keep seeing 
AmaroK and Amarok, so I'm convinced it's a good idea.

Harald Sitter wrote:
> 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 .... 

This isn't really the same at all. All we're changing is the spelling, 
we're not asking people to call it something else.

 > Kubuntu gets often called as KUbuntu, which looks like shit and is
 > actually wrong - though also Kubuntu hasn't got renamed.

I've never seen it spelled KUbuntu, while almost everyone struggles not 
to capitalise the A. Also something as fundamentally at odds with the 
way European languages work (capitalism the first letter for proper 
nouns) is more serious an issue than capitalising or not the second letter.

Max





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