Renaming amaroK, Amarok

[Stefan Bogner]

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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