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[Jaap Broekhuizen <jaapz.b@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am pretty sure that we already had the Generic Name discussion on this mailing list before?

Op di, nov 20, 2012 at 10:15 ,Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:
I'm all for just going the GNOME Direction and calling it "Music". This applies to all other apps (some are already like this, such as Files and Terminal). It is just so much simpler for the user to see something like "Web" rather than "Midori" (which has nothing to do with the web).

So yeah, "Music" ftw.


On 20 November 2012 21:05, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just my two cents:

It'd be really easy to just call it "Music" and not worry about it any longer haha.

I don't think we should translate the name unless we're going with "Music". Translating a "branded" name would kind of defeat the purpose, IMO and (as previously pointed out) could lead to some not-so-nice translations.

I didn't really intend Noise to be a serious name, but I don't have any massive problems with it either. I do agree with Victor that if we're going to do a name change it needs to happen as soon as humanly possible.


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Jose Luis Navarro <jlnavarro111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
@Victor +1

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


On Mon, 19 Nov, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Corentin Noël <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.
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>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.
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>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...
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>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?
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>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.
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>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.
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>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. 
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>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.
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>Just my two cents,
>Jaap
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>Op ma, nov 19, 2012 at 3:14 ,David Gomes schreef:
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>It's trivial to you because you know what Noise is. It's a media player, you know it.
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>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.
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>On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jaap Broekhuizen | Mobiel wrote:
>What is "many"? Seems like a trivial thing to me...
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>"Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" schreef:
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>>2012/11/19 Jaap Broekhuizen :
>>> Is there an actual logical reason to rename Noise?
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>>"Noise" is perceived as something negative by many (the kind of people
>>who are not crazy about metal or industrial), that's it AFAIK.
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