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El 19/11/2012 19:42, "xapantu" <xapantu@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

>  Le 19/11/2012 17:43, Benjamin VanMeggelen a écrit :
>
> I understand the issue with the translation. From what I understand (as
> french being my second language) the translation from Noise to french is
> Bruit. I'm not sure if the application titles have been (or will be)
> translated, but if so "Bruit" gives the same proper description of what
> Noise is in english.
>
> I hope it doesn't, IIRC "bruit" is much more negative than noise. "bruit"
> is just something you don't want to hear, when you say music is "bruit", it
> means that the music is very, very bad. And no, the names aren't (or
> shouldn't?) be translated ;)
> (But as Corentin said, "noise" is not much better than "bruit" is french
> anyway.)
>
> Lucas
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> On Mon, 19 Nov, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Corentin Noël <tintou@xxxxxxxxxx><tintou@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> Okay, I disagree with you all then because in my language (french) there
> is two way to pronounce that :
> In french, and that word exists and means "problems"
> In english, and that is really hard because there is an double voyel
> (no-ise) so it's not that good for us.
> I let the democracy choose, but here are my two cents.
>
> Regards,
> Corentin Noël (tintou)
>
> Benjamin VanMeggelen ** a écrit :
>
> >I also agree that Noise is an appropriate name for the player. I feel
> that this naming scheme is most relevant to the player, as opposed to Tempo
> or some of the others that have been mentioned. Noise seems more generic
> and straight-forward as to what the app is meant to do.
> >
> >On Mon, 19 Nov, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Felix Akkermans ** wrote:
> >I also agree with Jaap. Both names are equal to me in communicational
> value, so definitely not worth the effort and hassle.
> >
> >On 11/19/2012 03:46 PM, Chris Triantafillis wrote:
> >I agree with Jaap and i'm against rename it...
> >Also i don't like Tempo, Noise is much better...
> >
> >
> >2012/11/19 Jaap Broekhuizen **
> >Don't we already present Noise in the OS as a music player? Doesn't the
> icon have the purpose of showing the user what the app probably does?
> >
> >IMO "Noise" relates more to music than "Tempo" does. Also, if we are
> going this way with Noise because the name should directly show people what
> the app does, we should probably rename Geary and Midori too. And the
> makers of Empathy, Skype, Spotify, Steam, Firefox, Opera, Launchpad, Google
> Plus, Banshee, Clementine should probably have to start to think about a
> new name too.
> >
> >When we moved from Beatbox to our own fork the choice was made to name it
> "Noise". That already resulted in some confusion among the users. Renaming
> it again will only yet again result in more confusion.
> >
> >There will always be people who say a certain name is not good for the
> app, or that it is weird. The same will happen when you rename it to
> "Tempo", or any other name for that matter.
> >
> >IMO Noise should only be renamed if there is a really, really good reason
> to, and some users complaining it may sound negative is a good reason, i
> think. Also when you choose to rename it, the new name should be
> significantly better than the old name, if you want to show the confused
> users that it was really necessary and useful to make the change.
> >
> >Just my two cents,
> >Jaap
> >
> >Op ma, nov 19, 2012 at 3:14 ,David Gomes ** schreef:
> >
> >It's trivial to you because you know what Noise is. It's a media player,
> you know it.
> >
> >For people who don't, it's better if that name it is installed under in
> the computer is "Music Player" or something like that. It's easier for most
> people.
> >
> >
> >On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jaap Broekhuizen | Mobiel ** wrote:
> >What is "many"? Seems like a trivial thing to me...
> >
> >--
> >Jaap
> >
> >"Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" **schreef:
> >
> >>2012/11/19 Jaap Broekhuizen **:
> >>> Is there an actual logical reason to rename Noise?
> >>
> >>"Noise" is perceived as something negative by many (the kind of people
> >>who are not crazy about metal or industrial), that's it AFAIK.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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