ASU Testing

[thomasg]

A do agree, too - at least partially.
Imho enlightenment and illume may have the name they want - because nobody
will ever get in touch with those names (at least no one who cares about
functional names).
But applications that are available in a menu to let the user select them
should have a name that describes what it does - and that fits.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Mike (mwester) <mwester at dls.net> wrote:

> Andy Powell wrote:
> > On Friday 13 June 2008 04:28, Jeremy Chang wrote:
> >>    I think, to make it clear for everybody, we call it Splinter instead
> >> of Diversity when talking about ASU.
> >>    That's more make sense?
> >>
> > None of this naming makes sense. I've never understood why these stupid
> names
> > are being used. Could someone enlighten (heheh) me as to why the package
> > manager isn't called 'Package Manager' or 'Add/remove Programs' or at
> least
> > something that describes what its function is... or is the target market
> for
> > these devices 14 year old boys?
>
> Andy is absolutely correct (and I applaud his "no-holds barred"
> communication style!).
>
> "Assassin" -- What the heck does that have to do with package
> management, firstly.
>
> Secondly, it's an emotionally-charged word.  If that's going to help in
> the target market, that's a good thing.  And I don't underestimate the
> number of Linux "geeks" that count themselves in the type of community
> where this would be met with "Oh cool!".  But if anyone is thinking that
> this is a device that should be marketed to companies and businesses who
> would use it as a platform (think Blackberry replacements, for example),
> that choice of words is probably just about as bad as it can get.
>
> Consider what sort of trouble a reference to that word got Hillary
> Clinton into a few weeks ago.  That's just an example; I rather expect
> the word has highly-charged negative connotations in other countries as
> well.
>
>
> "Splinter" -- as in something I don't want to get?  Something that
> causes me great pain both going in, and when someone with tweezers pulls
> it out?
>
>
> "Illume" -- what?  Where's my dictionary/thesaurus!
>
> "Exposure"  -- Huh?  As in, what I'm going to die of?  Out in the woods
> where I got lost because I couldn't remember the name of the GPS
> application on my Neo, if I don't die first of the infection I got from
> the "Splinter" in my toe...  but maybe if I use my Neo to "Illume" my
> toe I can remove the "Splinter", and crawl to safety....
>
>
> Honestly, I'm not trying to be a wet blanket -- "Package Manager" and
> "GPS" are crappy names too -- but can't we find something else?  :D
>
> Mike (mwester)
>
>
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