[Adium-devl] Dropping the X?

[Paul Wilde]

I've never really understood what the X means. I always thought it  
was because of 'OS X', but that makes no sense as the X stands for  
10, and it's not version 10 of Adium.

I also agree with the ugly part. I don't think I've ever called it  
Adium X, nor have any of my friends who are also Adium users. Heck, I  
don't even think anyone in #adium calls it Adium X either.

I say drop it.

On 13 Nov 2006, at 16:09, Colin Barrett wrote:

>
> On Nov 13, 2006, at 5:56 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> On Nov 13, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if it would be that hard to transition over. A search
>>> and
>>> replace would probably find most of it in our code. I'm not sure
>>> about
>>> Trac though -- I think most of the time there we refer to it as
>>> Adium.
>>>
>>> Also, I'm pretty sure it was Cocoaime :P
>>
>> We do refer to it as Adium, and I've never heard anyone be confused
>> by the duality of the program having a longer full name than what we
>> call it colloquially. We've built up a sizable audience on "Adium X"
>> -- even if it would cause minimal confusion by dropping the X, is  
>> there really any need to do so?
>
> It looks ugly and silly? Having two names is kind of weird. What's the
> X even mean? I see people call it AdiumX, as one word, which is weird.
> I don't think it's *confusing* anyone, but it definitely isn't very
> pretty.
>
> It's not a huge deal, but we should pick a position and stick with it,
> either way.
>
> -Colin
>
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