Re: 'GNOME', 'Gnome' [Was: Gnome 2]

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Murray Cumming wrote:

> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:59:13 +0200
> From: Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: 'GNOME', 'Gnome' [Was: Gnome 2]
>
> On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:05 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > I would more readily support an entirely new name.
> >
> > The only way I could see ever that happening was under the threat of legal
> > action.
>
> Since Firefox, renaming and relaunching seems like a marketing trick
> that can really pay off. Of course it would be insanely difficult for
> such a large project.

You will notice it took Firefox several attempts to get it right.  If we
really thought it was a likely prospect then the branding should be
cleanly abstracted to make any change easier.

-- 
Alan