Renaming amaroK, Amarok
Harald Sitter
harald.sitter at kdemail.net
Mon Jun 5 19:20:29 UTC 2006
On Monday 05 June 2006 21:00, Dan Meltzer wrote:
> On Monday 05 June 2006 11:43 am, Harald Sitter wrote:
> > As amaroK, insanity and me agreed, we should call the player thingy -
> > Boingo.
> >
> > >[17:29] <apachelogger> ~8ball shall we call amarok boingo?
> > >[17:29] * insanity shakes the magic 8-ball... yes
> >
> > It's a easy to remember name, and is really easy to write, as it starts
> > with upper case B we can also allow an adaption to boingo - the
> > difference is not big, and by using actually 2 spellings our well loved
> > mediawiki software can't mess around with it.
> > Its sound is error proofed, anyone writing the name will recoginize a
> > spelling error, since the _i_ provides a very specific sound of the name.
> > It also doesn't have a K, k or kay, so that no user will think we use KDE
> > stuff, work together with KDE staff or just use KDE infrastructure, as
> > people use to do about KVirc.
> > The best thing is that Boingo is a really special name, and of course due
> > to the special sound, it's a perfect brand (I also doubt it is a tm).
> >
> > We also pointed out that boingo-player.org is still free (as well as
> > boingo-project.org in case we wanna have a project site in case we open
> > up a foundation).
> >
> > Thoughts about?
>
> It has a g in it, people are going to think gnome.
>
> ITS OUT!
OMG!
George Bush - I always knew....
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Harald Sitter roKymotion team harald.sitter at kdemail.net
amarok.kde.org rokymotion.pwsp.net apachelogger at kdetalk.net
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