Re: Name of the fork / Voting
Klaus Umbach <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:43:02 +0200
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On 08.04.10 11:21, Marc Hartstein wrote: > Excerpts from panman's message of Thu Apr 08 10:25:25 -0400 2010: > > I'd like to suggest that it would be preferable if the word chosen for > > the new name be easily searchable. That is to say, someone doing a > > search for "notion howto" or "neon howto" are going to get all kinds of > > bad results. > > This is a good point, but looking around, I'm not so worried about it: What about "wrtzlpfrpft"? There are no hits yet on google! It uses no letter, ion uses and it has no vowels, which is a definite point for "not Finnish". - Klaus > google: notion howto > about 65,100 results > > google: neon howto > about 170,000 results > > The notion hits don't look like they make a lot of sense; I suspect real > HOWTOs regarding a window manager named notion would sort quickly to the > top of the list. > > The neon hits include a hit about the neon library on the first page. > Unlike the commercial software named notion, which is unlikely to cause > a lot of confusion, neon is a library which is likely to be on many > users' systems [I have it as a dependency of openoffice and subversion > for some reason I'd prefer not to theorize about]. > > ++notion --