Re: GNOME -> Gnome

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

Something completely different might be better again... we don't have a
huge amount of brand equity worldwide for GNOME, perhaps it's time to
consider a rename? Although I can live with GNOME...

Our brand recognition seems to be mostly within the FOSS group.  People really don't know GNOME they know Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE etc but they don't really know the software that runs their desktop.  There is no recognizable branding in any of those desktops.

Even in gnome-shell I don't know that I'm using GNOME.  Our brand is non-existent in the shell.  No icon, no wording, nothing.

Changing GNOME's name now could prove distracting but also IMHO ineffective as long as our branding is hidden behind distros.

sri