[Telepathy] Looking for a coool name

[Robert McQueen]

That said, I kinda prefer Grapevine to either of them, it's a pretty
neat name because it means both passing information around by rumour,
but also the plant where grapes grow, which seems to suggest somehow
growing around everything and being attached together into one big whole. :)

Regards,
Rob

Robert McQueen wrote:
> I don't really like it, it has meanings of sharing when somebody is
> suffering or worthy of pity:
>      3. Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity;
>         commiseration; compassion.
> 
> How about Empathy? It's a vaguely Telepathic phenomenon (especially if
> you're in to Star Trek) and also means sharing in someone's feelings,
> but doesn't have the negative implications that "sympathy" does.
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
> Xavier Claessens wrote:
>> I like it because it ends by "pathy" like telepathy. Ok to use that ?
>>
>> Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 08:47 -0700, Eitan Isaacson a écrit :
>>> "Sympathy"
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:35 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> As discussed on IRC I'm starting a new set of applications build on top
>>>> of nokia's MC and reusing gossip's UI. The idea is to have one tarball
>>>> containing one folder per application (account manager, contact list,
>>>> chat, voip) plus one folder with a lib for common parts. The first
>>>> application I'm working on is an account creation/edition. When the set
>>>> of application will be enough to be used for common tasks of an user it
>>>> will become the GNOME IM stack.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a name for that set of application, I'm not sure we can
>>>> keep the "gossip" name even if we'll keep the same UI. Suggestions are
>>>> welcomed!!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Xavier Claessens.
>>>>
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