[Adium-devl] Dropping the X?

[Chris Forsythe]

I agree with Evan in that we should probably keep it. Folks who refer to 
it as Adium will continue to do so, but the folks who refer to it as 
AdiumX or Adium X or Admium X may be confused by it.

A little back history for those not in the loop:

Back in the before times, Adium 1.6.x was a community project or 
something like that (hence before times, before my times, or if you like 
a south park reference) and Adium 2 was started by Adam there was Adium 
2. The consensus was that it was a new app though so there was a need to 
differentiate. At the time the X was all the rage, so that was the 
obvious choice. Plus it matched the domain name.

At least, that's what I remember. This is also a good time to point out 
that changes like this should be recorded on this page: 
http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/AdiumDevTimeline

Anyhow, I don't think it's such a big deal to keep it. It's "ugly" seems 
to be the consensus, along with the x making "no sense". However it 
doesn't seem to confuse folks as it is, and we'd have to explain 
ourselves otherwise. As of right now we have very little explaining to 
do on the X.

Chris

Paul Wilde wrote:

>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:
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>>On Nov 13, 2006, at 5:56 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
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>>>On Nov 13, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:
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>>>>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
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>>>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?
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>>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.
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>>It's not a huge deal, but we should pick a position and stick with it,
>>either way.
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>>-Colin
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