Gimp vs GNU Image Manipulation Program

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My gut feeling tells me that they will tell that fedora can change the
> name to gimp if that fits better, most upstream gnome people to who I
> talked to told me that on such minor things gnome lets downstream
> customize as they need for them.
>
> I'll talk to upstream and report back and tell you if my gut feeling
> was spot on or wrong.
>


whether we are allowed to do it or not is not the point.

The argue you made was about brand recognition. As a downstream, should we
be telling the upstream project how their brand should be handled?  I really
don't think so. We all recognize that brands have value because they are
recognizable. But if a specific project wants to change their brand..that is
THEIR choice..because its THEIR project.

As distributors of 'well known' applications... we need to take our cues
from the upstream project with regard to handling 'branding'. Perhaps the
project leads for GIMP are actually trying to make an explicit effort to
rebrand it so the non acronym becomes the recognized name. If so, then we
should respect that.  If you want this changed... get the upstream project
to revert back to using the GIMP as the name instead of the longer name in
the desktop file.  For all we know this is a deliberate attempt to rebrand
by the upstream project.

Arguing about adding useful functional descriptions to how we generally list
applications is one thing. And arguing that we should hide all
non-functional names is another thing worthy of discourse. But to
delibrately reinterpret or shorten the chosen  project name  because it
doesn't suite us is quite another. Talk to the GIMP project authors and
figure out what they intend concerning branding. Don't make unilateral
decisions over interpretations of application names.  We've already
recognized that this is a brand issue...at that point you MUST seek
clarification as to what the upstream project intends in terms of branding.

Hey I know let's revert firefox back to firebird and forget that the project
deliberately rebranded even though the firebird name was widely used for the
browser up to that point.

-jef"While we are at it, let's change the name of rhythmbox to rbox in
Fedora, because I consistently misspell rhythm."spaleta
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