can you actually find any Ximian Evolution or Novell Evolution strings anywhere in your evolution? cuz I can't :-) Jeff On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 14:14 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:58 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > (This is a thread-starter for the final module discussion before the release > > team reports back with a summary and proposal, which will aim to represent > > the consensus of the community. Please be kind to authors, and start totally > > new threads if there's a reason to shift off-topic.) > > > > Description: > > > > Evolution is an integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring application > > for GNOME. It brings in a number of dependencies: evolution-data-server, > > gal, gtkhtml and libsoup. > > One issue I'd like to bring up is the Evolution branding. > > If Evolution were to be accepted into GNOME the upstream version would > be required to rename itself to more generic functional names and lose > any branding. So, Evolution would no longer be called "Ximian > Evolution" but would change to be something like "Email". Not just > the .desktop files, but also the window title would have to comply with > this "rebranding", I'm sure the docs would have to change as well. > Obviously the binary name and/or the source code file names don't have > to change, but the user visible aspects need to. Distributions such as > Ximian desktop could then patch those pieces to brand however they like > (weird, i know). > > So I guess the question is, is Evolution willing to lose the brand name > and become the GNOME brand Email and Calendaring app? As all other > GNOME applications are expected to do this same thing. > > Cheers, > ~ Bryan > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. fejj ximian com - www.novell.com
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