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K-Meleon Web Browser Forum
Hi i was just wondering if anyone else thinks
the browser name looks better as kmeleon?
Leave it away. I always get confused when I want to reach the homepage, coz here it's written without dash....
Cheerz Lars
Yeah, you should remove it.
I think you should change the name altogether -- think of a better one.
Remove the dash.. that way it sounds more like "chameleon" and not some botched up name that it is already
Kmeleon does sound sexy
It might be nice not to have to reach for the dash every time I say something nice about my favorite browser ;-)
but then people might mistake KM for Kylie Minogue...
stop wasting ur time telling what u think of the name because it isnt any use if they never release 0.7 so use this time to fix 0.7 not chat about some stupid names
Actually I'm always amazed at some of the suggestions that crop up from time to time: change the logo, change the name. Boredom certainly does get people thinking.
As for the hyphenated K-Meleon name, I like it! It's distinct, and certainly doesn't pander to other boring browser naming conventions.
How about KMBrowser?
How about K.M. Leon?
:-P
Drop the dash. I consistently forget and try to go to k-meleon.org instead of kmeleon.org
No real need for it, anyone that knows will not think it a KDE app once they look around a little will they?
Opps, perhaps noone here knows what I even mean by <a href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</a>; .. that is ok .. I use winderz too, got to, hence why I would love to see kmeleon too ..
Posting a note about this to the embedding group as well as I would really love to hear more about where kmeleon is and when we will see another release. Will scour the forum here for hints too
All the best
Jason Key
<a href="http://www.newfoundsystems.com/bloggin/moz_distracted/">Mozilla Distracted</a>
Opps ...
that was
No real need for it, anyone that knows will not think it a KDE app once they look around a little will they?
Opps, perhaps noone here knows what I even mean by <a href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</a>; .. that is ok .. I use winderz too, got to, hence why I would love to see kmeleon too ..
Posting a note about this to the embedding group as well as I would really love to hear more about where kmeleon is and when we will see another release. Will scour the forum here for hints too
All the best
Jason Key
Mozilla Distracted
Yes. I thot it was some brazilian name until I had it installed and realized that the dragon was really a chameleon. Or something like that. I could be totally off base about everything. Good browser tho.
Yep.
A name change might be nice. Something like "Newt" or "Newtzilla" ...small, fast, and powerful.
Yeah. "Newtzilla" that's the browser for me. ; )
you can call it anything you want; it won't mind - adapting to you is it's job.
It's a hyphen.
I think the dash makes the name sexy.
<Remove the dash.. that way it sounds more like "chameleon" >
Naah. Leave it in. "KMeleon" would be prnounced "kuh meal eon" or simply "meleon" if the K were silent. Hmmm... maybe its me who should be silent.
On deeper pondering, I find that I rather like the dash. It adds a little dash of spice...oooh, god will forgive me the pun, but no one else will... It has something to do with the unique nature of My Favorite Browser. Or maybe I'm just getting overly sentimental. Had I met it under a different name, I'm sure i'd be surfing all the same.
However, I would like to observe that name changes often reflect a hubristic attitude, and also tend to be confusing. Like, duh, I heard about this great browser called... duh, what was it?
May Atropos apply her scissors to this thread ;-)
What's the point here? I followed this long discussion and it sounds quite like a nonsense. First, what's wrong with the dash (actually it is hyphen; dashes are longer and there are two kinds of them: m-dash - the longest one - and n-dash - a bit shorter than m-dash).
The hyphen gives IMHO K-Meleon a sense of originality and distinctness. And K-Meleon also sounds good. What some of you are talking about here is mainstream - why not then call it the Super Browser, the Hyper Browser or the Mega-Kill-O-Zap Browser? I understand that such names are definitely turning on (or should I say the American style?). Except that there are already thousands of such software names and I have usually found those mega-hyper-pieces of software to be quite crappy if not unusable. Maybe "Opera" is a wrong name, too ? (boring, quite uncommon, something classic...)
So, I think, K-Meleon is a very good name and you should not change it by any means.
Oh well, this discussion is a bit of a distraction from the other stuff (which I won't go into, most people are aware of it).
But still, this is all just geeky obssesion really. I mean, changing the name makes it more "sexy". Those people need to get out more ;-)
What's in a name?...
A rose by any other name...
pk. maybe cause I'm a manager and maybe cause I just like K as a browser I've gotta put my two cents in...
If there has to be a change ( which I am not at all certain of...) why not put an A in the place of the 'hyphen' so you get:
Kameleon
or Kemeleon
Personally I like Komodo! but, heh...
Whatever... :-)
Yours Truly,
~TheRodster
a.k.a. Rodney Giles
Chief Engineering Architect
Toydrum Web & Media
"Personally I like Komodo! but, heh..."
Unfortunately (fortunately for some though), there is already a Mozilla related project called Komodo:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mozilla
You never know, it might be a project right up your own alley.
"Unfortunately (fortunately for some though), there is already a Mozilla related project called Komodo:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mozilla
You never know, it might be a project right up your own alley."
Similar to what I'm looking for but I want something even more basic...
I'm putting together a project called Chinchilla on mozdev to extend XRE to work as a platform...
]http://chinchilla.mozdev.org
Yours Truly.
~TheRodster
a.k.a. Rodney Giles
Chief Engineering Architect
Toydrum Web & Media
@#$% I royally messed that up... oh well
But, ya...
After talking about K-Meleon to other developers I've discovered that most people ask me how to pronounce it. I've heard K-"mellon" more than once...
another Idea I had was:
K-Million
Although I'm not sure I figured this was a brainstorm and I might as well throw it out and see what happens...
Kemeleon is the best dirivitive I've seen...
But the name is probably gonna need to be changed because there is 4 different moz-related project I've seen bearing some dirivitive of "Chemeleon".
That's my thoughts for today...
Yours Truly.
~TheRodster
a.k.a. Rodney Giles
Chief Engineering Architect
Toydrum Web & Media
General discussion about K-Meleon
Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Zachary Dillard
Date: June 20, 2002 06:17AM
Hi i was just wondering if anyone else thinks
the browser name looks better as kmeleon?
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Lars Behrens
Date: June 20, 2002 07:58AM
Leave it away. I always get confused when I want to reach the homepage, coz here it's written without dash....
Cheerz Lars
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Z_God
Date: June 20, 2002 08:35PM
Yeah, you should remove it.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
m. taaffe (taaffe@polbox.com)
Date: June 20, 2002 09:56PM
I think you should change the name altogether -- think of a better one.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
noname james
Date: June 21, 2002 07:29AM
Remove the dash.. that way it sounds more like "chameleon" and not some botched up name that it is already
Kmeleon does sound sexy
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Arual the Wyrd
Date: June 25, 2002 01:19PM
It might be nice not to have to reach for the dash every time I say something nice about my favorite browser ;-)
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
polo
Date: June 25, 2002 02:04PM
but then people might mistake KM for Kylie Minogue...
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
_-_
Date: June 25, 2002 02:21PM
stop wasting ur time telling what u think of the name because it isnt any use if they never release 0.7 so use this time to fix 0.7 not chat about some stupid names
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Al.
Date: June 26, 2002 10:35PM
Actually I'm always amazed at some of the suggestions that crop up from time to time: change the logo, change the name. Boredom certainly does get people thinking.
As for the hyphenated K-Meleon name, I like it! It's distinct, and certainly doesn't pander to other boring browser naming conventions.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Josh
Date: July 01, 2002 02:49AM
How about KMBrowser?
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
sven
Date: July 01, 2002 06:12AM
How about K.M. Leon?
:-P
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
prowsej
Date: July 14, 2002 02:15AM
Drop the dash. I consistently forget and try to go to k-meleon.org instead of kmeleon.org
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Drop it
Date: July 14, 2002 02:44AM
No real need for it, anyone that knows will not think it a KDE app once they look around a little will they?
Opps, perhaps noone here knows what I even mean by <a href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</a>; .. that is ok .. I use winderz too, got to, hence why I would love to see kmeleon too ..
Posting a note about this to the embedding group as well as I would really love to hear more about where kmeleon is and when we will see another release. Will scour the forum here for hints too
All the best
Jason Key
<a href="http://www.newfoundsystems.com/bloggin/moz_distracted/">Mozilla Distracted</a>
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Drop it
Date: July 14, 2002 02:46AM
Opps ...
that was
No real need for it, anyone that knows will not think it a KDE app once they look around a little will they?
Opps, perhaps noone here knows what I even mean by <a href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</a>; .. that is ok .. I use winderz too, got to, hence why I would love to see kmeleon too ..
Posting a note about this to the embedding group as well as I would really love to hear more about where kmeleon is and when we will see another release. Will scour the forum here for hints too
All the best
Jason Key
Mozilla Distracted
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
GAK
Date: August 25, 2002 07:16PM
Yes. I thot it was some brazilian name until I had it installed and realized that the dragon was really a chameleon. Or something like that. I could be totally off base about everything. Good browser tho.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Michael
Date: August 27, 2002 08:52AM
Yep.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Michael
Date: August 27, 2002 09:01AM
A name change might be nice. Something like "Newt" or "Newtzilla" ...small, fast, and powerful.
Yeah. "Newtzilla" that's the browser for me. ; )
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
po
Date: August 27, 2002 06:54PM
you can call it anything you want; it won't mind - adapting to you is it's job.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Daelin
Date: August 30, 2002 07:42AM
It's a hyphen.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Moo
Date: September 06, 2002 11:09PM
I think the dash makes the name sexy.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
michael@kimballpottery.com
Date: September 15, 2002 04:15PM
<Remove the dash.. that way it sounds more like "chameleon" >
Naah. Leave it in. "KMeleon" would be prnounced "kuh meal eon" or simply "meleon" if the K were silent. Hmmm... maybe its me who should be silent.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Arual the Wyrd
Date: September 15, 2002 11:09PM
On deeper pondering, I find that I rather like the dash. It adds a little dash of spice...oooh, god will forgive me the pun, but no one else will... It has something to do with the unique nature of My Favorite Browser. Or maybe I'm just getting overly sentimental. Had I met it under a different name, I'm sure i'd be surfing all the same.
However, I would like to observe that name changes often reflect a hubristic attitude, and also tend to be confusing. Like, duh, I heard about this great browser called... duh, what was it?
May Atropos apply her scissors to this thread ;-)
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Andres
Date: September 19, 2002 08:01PM
What's the point here? I followed this long discussion and it sounds quite like a nonsense. First, what's wrong with the dash (actually it is hyphen; dashes are longer and there are two kinds of them: m-dash - the longest one - and n-dash - a bit shorter than m-dash).
The hyphen gives IMHO K-Meleon a sense of originality and distinctness. And K-Meleon also sounds good. What some of you are talking about here is mainstream - why not then call it the Super Browser, the Hyper Browser or the Mega-Kill-O-Zap Browser? I understand that such names are definitely turning on (or should I say the American style?). Except that there are already thousands of such software names and I have usually found those mega-hyper-pieces of software to be quite crappy if not unusable. Maybe "Opera" is a wrong name, too ? (boring, quite uncommon, something classic...)
So, I think, K-Meleon is a very good name and you should not change it by any means.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Al.
Date: September 19, 2002 10:25PM
Oh well, this discussion is a bit of a distraction from the other stuff (which I won't go into, most people are aware of it).
But still, this is all just geeky obssesion really. I mean, changing the name makes it more "sexy". Those people need to get out more ;-)
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
TheWebDevGuy
Date: September 26, 2002 05:38AM
What's in a name?...
A rose by any other name...
pk. maybe cause I'm a manager and maybe cause I just like K as a browser I've gotta put my two cents in...
If there has to be a change ( which I am not at all certain of...) why not put an A in the place of the 'hyphen' so you get:
Kameleon
or Kemeleon
Personally I like Komodo! but, heh...
Whatever... :-)
Yours Truly,
~TheRodster
a.k.a. Rodney Giles
Chief Engineering Architect
Toydrum Web & Media
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
Al.
Date: September 27, 2002 01:06AM
"Personally I like Komodo! but, heh..."
Unfortunately (fortunately for some though), there is already a Mozilla related project called Komodo:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mozilla
You never know, it might be a project right up your own alley.
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
TheWebDevGuy
Date: September 29, 2002 11:21PM
"Unfortunately (fortunately for some though), there is already a Mozilla related project called Komodo:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mozilla
You never know, it might be a project right up your own alley."
Similar to what I'm looking for but I want something even more basic...
I'm putting together a project called Chinchilla on mozdev to extend XRE to work as a platform...
]http://chinchilla.mozdev.org
Yours Truly.
~TheRodster
a.k.a. Rodney Giles
Chief Engineering Architect
Toydrum Web & Media
Re: Does anyone else think that we should lose the dash in the name K-Meleon?
Posted by:
TheWebDevGuy
Date: September 29, 2002 11:31PM
@#$% I royally messed that up... oh well
But, ya...
After talking about K-Meleon to other developers I've discovered that most people ask me how to pronounce it. I've heard K-"mellon" more than once...
another Idea I had was:
K-Million
Although I'm not sure I figured this was a brainstorm and I might as well throw it out and see what happens...
Kemeleon is the best dirivitive I've seen...
But the name is probably gonna need to be changed because there is 4 different moz-related project I've seen bearing some dirivitive of "Chemeleon".
That's my thoughts for today...
Yours Truly.
~TheRodster
a.k.a. Rodney Giles
Chief Engineering Architect
Toydrum Web & Media
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