Re: Name of the fork / Voting

M Rawash is right, developers / users of this new fork should pick this=20
discussion up again once it exists.
>>> for now "notion" is the name of this fork, we will have more time to
>>> decide on a better name later, but right now we're moving on...
>>>
>>> new mailing lists: https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=3D314802
>>>
>>> please subscribe.
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>> Need to understand if most people will subscribe to the list then the
>> community will be agree in integral with this name, due to natural
>> inertia of group of people.
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> more people have subscribed to the list than have posted here so far.
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>> And.. who made you chief?
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> nobody, hence:
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3D1270776985.=
4591.143.camel%40localhost&forum_name=3Dnotion-devel
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> regards,
> M Rawash
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NotionWM, NucleusWM, some pretty good suggestions.
> Hi all,
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> sorry for being late for the vote, I'd vote for "nion" and "notion".
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> With an existing "Notion" software, there's a small chance in having
> problems and a big chance not being googlable, and THAT is a bigger
> problem IMNSHO, just as panman wrote. We can probably solve it by
> using the name "NotionWM" instead of just "Notion".
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>>> I'm not particularly good with coming up with names. ThinWM?
>>> TinyParticle? TilingMadeSimple? Quirk? (Told you I was terrible.)
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> If we're going to find new names, I'm no better, but the Wikipedia
> "ion" page is great for finding metaphors:
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> * Aurora - sounds like a new, beautiful and exciting stuff
>   Competing on Google is the concept plane.
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> * NucleusWM - sounds nice and would carry the idea of a small WM,
>   but there are many other uses for this word, even in software.
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> * Faraday - he discovered and named the ions.
>   There are a lot of fun metaphors we can find ^^
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> * Polyatomic - well, that's geeky :)
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> Just my 2 cents,
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I've been using ion for a long time, I've searched for all sorts of=20
things related to ion. ion+window+manager is, as I say, useful to find=20
formal ion documentation, or the website, etc. It is not useful for=20
searching for informal posts or blogs. People aren't generally that=20
specific.
> How did you searched for original ion(1)? I did it by:
>   ion window manager
> and got expected result. Or more often I put into google:
>   ion window manager documentation
> Did you ever tried to search the word "ion", or "ion howto"?
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> And my vote:
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> lion +1 - Lithium Ion, is third element in periodic table and the fork
>           will be ion3plus based.
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> =E1=9A=85(nion) +1
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> On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:30:24 +0200
> M Rawash <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 09:22 -0700, panman wrote:=20
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>>> The way I wrote that was a little confusing. My meaning was (if I
>>> can do better this time) a search for debian+howto+notion will
>>> include any howto's for debian where someone had a notion since
>>> it's a common english word. Doing a search for various terms+notion
>>> generally finds hits from the presence of a sentence in the page
>>> about the notion of something or other. You're absolutely right, a
>>> legitimate page about a project called notion should rise above
>>> that sort of thing.
>>>
>>> I was not however really thinking of the legitimate site for the=20
>>> project. Consider a search for statusbar+notion, lua+notion,=20
>>> maximized+notion, keybindings+notion. The point is notion doesn't
>>> do a very good job of focusing the hits in on this project. A post
>>> someone makes on their blog regarding their experiences with notion
>>> containing the exact solution some future user is looking for could
>>> be very difficult to find.
>>>
>>> I found this to be the case with the name ion, without the '3' it's
>>> a very bad filter, and since people often drop the '3' in
>>> discussions about it, with the 3 it's a very bad filter.
>>>
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>> hmmm, we really should contact the "awesome" guys and ask them how
>> they do it...=20
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