Re: Proposed: evolution

[Bryan Clark <bclark redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 14:29 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> can you actually find any Ximian Evolution or Novell Evolution strings
> anywhere in your evolution? cuz I can't :-)

On a purely academic test that isn't anywhere near conclusive or
complete...

[clarkbw rhbw evolution]$ grep -r \(\"Evolution * | wc -l
32

I don't think that gets them all, but not too bad...
~ Bryan

> 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
> > 
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Bryan Clark <bclark redhat com>
Red Hat Desktop Design Ninja