Renaming amaroK, Amarok

[Reigo Reinmets]

After a few hours of thinking.. i managed to but the historical love for the 
name besides me and i have come to agree with the idea about changin the name 
to Amarok, but only for the following reasons:

* smalle K and Bigger A would make amaroK more non-kde looking, although we 
are rather kde-dependent
* Amarok is a lot easyer to understand and write for most journalists, less 
confusion for users.
* Amarok is grammaticaly a lot more correct than amaroK is. No matter the 
language - again less confusion for writers.

Additional notes: I think, that the name changing should happen along with the 
release of the 2.0 series.. or when the first public beta ships.
Canging the name of the 1.4 series would be rather crap, also we need to 
redraw some artwork etc so 2.0 sounds like a good deadline?
So.. my proposal would be amaroK 1.4 and Amarok 2.0 :)
New Version, New skin(Qt4), New name :) Re-New Everything :)

Cheers,
Reigo Reinmets

On Friday 02 June 2006 10:08, Bonne Eggleston wrote:
> 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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