[Adium-devl] Dropping the X?

[disposable at infinitenexus.com]

Even if we come to a consensus to change it, I'd say such a narrow  
timeframe isn't feasible. 1.0 is at the very end of its release  
pipeline, and a change like this may seem simple but would cause yet  
another delay, and I'd hate to see 1.0 official wait until '07 over a  
single letter :)

- brian 'bgannin' ganninger

On Nov 13, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Chris Forsythe wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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