[Wasabi] Project renaming

jamie jamiemcc at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Mar 16 16:05:34 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:29 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>:
>         2007/3/16, Luca Dionisi <luca.dionisi at gmail.com>:
>                 On 3/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
>                 <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 
>                 > Also I don't even know what 
>                 > Xdg stands for :-)
>                 
>                 I found this:
>                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdg
>                 
>                 I am for the politically correct XdgSomething
>         
>         Ah, thanks, now I know that :-)
>         
>         I'm not sure if we need some kind of blessing to brand it as
>         Xdg though... Is there are formal *group* behind the "g", or
>         is it just a loose group of people with similar interests?
> 
> 
> Ok,  here's a  round up:
> 
>  - Brassica : Already taken.
>  - Sinapis : Appears to be clean. Good because it is close to synapse
> which is a connection, and bad because it is close to synaptic (the
> package manager) 
>  - Galanga : Appears clean. G could insinuate Gnome connection. Close
> to Galago and Galaga which are both interely different software
> projects
>  - Karashi : Appears clean. Could indicate KDE relation. 
>  - Pequin : Appears clean. Looks and sounds a bit odd. 
>  - Aji : Appears clean. There's something about it I dislike
>  - XdgSearch: Totally clean (zero google hits). The "boring" but
> serious name. We do more than searching in the strict sense though

I thought the raison d'etre of wasabi is to create a common search
interface?

(and its most likely modus operandi will be for performing searches no
doubt)













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