Re: Re: Reply To: Sodipodi / *nkscape...

John Stracke wrote:
> The name probably is a problem.  When I see the GNOME digest come out,
> for example, I skim it for projects I recognize or whose names a
> meaningful enough to tell me what they are.  Sometimes I dig into the
> digest for definitions of meaningless names; but mostly I just don't
> want to spend the time.  As a result, it was maybe six months before I
> got around to finding out what sodipodi was.

I completely fail to see this point. Let's look at some of the programs
in the Gnome family:

- Gnome Ghostview (Postscript viewer)
- Gimp (raster graphics)
- Eye of Gnome (graphics viewer)
- Epiphany (web browser)
- Totem (multimedia player)
- Gnumeric (spreadsheet)
- Nautilus (file manager)
- yelp (help browser)
- Anjuta (development environment)

I need not go on.

Names like Gimp, eog, Totem, and Anjuta are just as arbitrary as Sodipodi.

--Pat



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