[Adium-devl] Dropping the X?

[Augie Fackler]

Totally agreed. I want 1.0 out the door already.
(*cracks whip on himself to finish joscar things*)

On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:04 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:

> 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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