name, logo and HIG

> 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.

Because those names are non-descriptive, they are considered 'bad' 
names by the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (which I quickly scanned 
a few weeks ago). The HIG also mention that the logo (in particular as 
an icon) of the Sodipodi application does not provide any information 
about what the application does. I can only say that though I like the 
Sodipodi name and logo, the HIG are correct about both. Good thing the 
HIG also mentions that when someone has learned the meaning of 
something, the mentioned arguments are not valid anymore.

/Lars



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