Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

[Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>]

hi,

On 12-08-20 12:36 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> 1. GNOMEbuntu
> 2. Ubuntu GNOME Edition
> 3. GNObuntu
>
> Ryan has already registered http://gnomebuntu.org/ so I'm leaning
> towards the first name if that's acceptable.

The reason I like the first name (at least in some form) is because if I 
ask someone "what distro?" they will not reply with "Ubuntu GNOME 
Edition".  It's going to get nick-named "gubuntu" or something like that 
in casual usage.  Having an official nickname like "gnomebuntu" is 
important if we want to avoid this.  The idea is that this could be used 
in the domain name and metapackage/seed names while reserving the longer 
name for official marketing/branding materials (website titles, splash 
screens, etc).

I have less of an opinion about what the "official" name should be.  A 
name like "Ubuntu GNOME Edition" or even "GNOME, powered by Ubuntu" were 
discussed at the UDS and I think they're okay.  I registered the domain 
at the time, though, because I was pretty sure that even if we pick one 
of these names we would require a shorter nickname, and imho, 
"gnomebuntu" is the only one I consider acceptable (rejecting explicit 
names like "gnubuntu" "gnobuntu" "gubuntu", etc).

Consider http://ubuntugnomeedition.org/ and you start to see what I mean...

Cheers