[Thunar-dev] Name suggestion

[Adam Scheinberg]

With almost 1500 votes in, the current name leaders are: 

Thunar, Pathfinder, File Manager, Digger, and Cabinet.  In that order.  

So the Thunar/File Manager looks at first glance like a good idea.  I,
however, am not entirely crazy about it.  Remember, OSNews (and
CERTAINLY any dev list) is made up of people with an active interest
in computers.  Let's think about the target audience of these
applications, and decide - are you marketing to geeks or common users?
 Thunar is a cool name, but does sound kind of cartoony, and while
you're still fighting for credibility (and even for distros to include
your program by default), I think there's something to choosing
something that sounds professional.  Maybe it's just me.

I think this is a pretty insightful post: 

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10146&offset=45&rows=56#354886

Adam

PS. I understand this is supposed to be a "dev" list and that there's
a lot of UI and name talk going on, and Benny, I saw your blog and
know that this is not really what you wanted, but it does seem to be
generating a lot of interest. Maybe it's time for a Thunar-general
list or something?


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:46:22 +0200, Nick Schermer
<nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To quote:
> >
> >    Anything that sounds like it should be followed by "the Barbarian"
> >    is an awesome name!
> 
> Ghehe, Thunar is a great name and already everybody is used to it.
> And very important, there is no software with the name thunar (just 1
> company, a couple of forum users)
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