Re: GNOME vs. Gnome

[Bart Decrem <bart eazel com>]

I vote for 3: Gnome.

It's quite painful to write GNOME 50x a day and it's even more painful to
read it all day long.  There comes a time when acronyms and technical terms
become so commonplace that their spelling changes: electronic mail -> e-mail
-> email.  Gnome is a lot more elegant and the press has already decided this
for us.

Bart



Dan Mueth wrote:

> On 2 Oct 2000, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
> > > > So, who wants s/GNOME/Gnome/, and who wants to s/Gnome/GNOME/?
> > >
> > > I'd vote "Gnome," for the reasons Aaron cited.
> >
> > I prefer "Gnome" as well; I try to use "GNOME" to be anally correct,
> > but it gets pretty hard to read if used too many times.
>
> Well, it sounds like lots of people agree that technically it is
> "GNOME" but that "Gnome" is better.  We have a few options:
>
> 1) Do nothing. ie. Continue to use "GNOME" and "Gnome" interchangibly.
> 2) Decide to use "GNOME" everywhere because it is correct, even though
> most people agree it is harder on the eyes and points out that GNOME is an
> acronym for something which most users will never understand.
> 3) Decide to change the name from "GNOME" to "Gnome" and use
> "Gnome" everywhere.
> 4) Some odd mixture where we use "GNOME" under one set of circumstances
> and "Gnome" under other circumstances.
>
> Right now we are doing both 1 and 4.  The web pages and press releases
> religiously use "GNOME".  The media typically uses "Gnome".  And
> applications in the Main Menu are split almost 50/50.
>
> Dan