Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

[Olav Vitters]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 01:02:31PM +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
> With Gnome3 there is really no connection to old Gnome at all -- and I
> sincerely believe this project would have found a more comfortable
> niche had it been named something different entirely. The name "Gnome
> Shell" seems to have been a compromise on this idea compared to
> calling it something more fitting like "Triangular Wheels" or "Hockey
> Cleats", but the use of the word "Gnome" promotes the Gnome3 moniker,
> and that promotes the idea that 3 is a transition from 2, despite that
> being totally wrong. We like to think that names don't mean things,
> but they certainly do -- consider the reason for reusing the name
> Gnome at all was to make it an easy shoe-in for Fedora (and later Red
> Hat) mainstream acceptance by promoting this very misconception, for
> example.

GNOME is mainly various people working on software.

Still, the interface totally changed. Also, you cannot change much (with
a GUI I mean, not somewhat hidden settings) unless you either use
extensions or gnome-tweak-tool. So it was thought of before the release
of 3.0.0. It was also brought because of the name itself ("Gnome") as
well as having a foot as logo is seen as bad in some regions.

In the end: renaming an entire project is just terribly annoying (not
worth it). I don't think anyone wants to spend the effort any time soon
(e.g. renaming all the machines and LDAP group names, scripts, etc:
rather do other things!).

-- 
Regards,
Olav