Re: Name of the fork / Voting

kevin granade <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:30:14 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> It seems that most of the recent participants of this mailing list prefer=
 notion as the name for the forking project. But there were other proposals=
 like cation or nion. Should we do an "official" voting (maybe by just by r=
eplying to this email with +1 for this or for that) or is the name notion n=
ow considered a given?
>
> Hope that we get the ball rolling after this decision has been made...nex=
t will be choosing a project leader (i would vote for Timandahaf) / chief d=
eveloper (I would vote for M Rawash here), but this should be done in anoth=
er thread...
>
> --
> Alexander Rink <[email protected]>
> n

From a trademark POV, all the suggested names suffer from the major
problem of incorporating the trademark in the name.  (see AOL v GAIM)
I know in this situation it is relatively safe to assume the trademark
holder isn't hostile, but I would still think it would be very
desirable to have a name that doesn't technically infringe the
trademark.

Unfortunately I don't have much in the way of alternatives to offer,
I'm not particularly good with coming up with names. ThinWM?
TinyParticle? TilingMadeSimple? Quirk? (Told you I was terrible.)

Tumov, I just wanted to express my heartfelt thanks for creating ion3
and making it available.  I've been an ion3 user for 3 years now, and
I don't plan on stopping anyttime soon.