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"Web""Web"Posted Apr 2, 2012 23:46 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Epiphany: the minimalist GNOME browser by neilbrown Parent article: Epiphany: the minimalist GNOME browser ...except if you look at the project's web site, or at the blog entries of the people working on it, they both still say Epiphany. And that's the name people know; "Web" is so generic as to be meaningless. So I made the decision to treat the name change as, at best, a future item.
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"Web" Posted Apr 3, 2012 2:16 UTC (Tue) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link] Yes, well, I figured I'd see what's-what, so "sudo apt-get install epiphany" and, 1-2-3, it was installed. Went to invoke it... hmmm... nothing under "Internet", but found it in a listing of all applications. OK... WTF?? It's a bloody GAME!! "sudo apt-get purge epiphany" !! Tried "sudo apt-get install web"... E: Unable to locate package web Riiight... I'm running Linux Mint 11 w/Gnome DE... but it's "only" Gnome 2. Bloody hell!! Hey! It's not like I was going to leave Firefox, right?
"Web" Posted Apr 3, 2012 3:47 UTC (Tue) by jbicha (subscriber, #75043) [Link]
Try apt-get install epiphany-browser
"Web" Posted Apr 3, 2012 4:20 UTC (Tue) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]
I went through this same dance as well...
"Web" Posted Apr 3, 2012 4:04 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
Indeed. And apart from being generic, how is one supposed to find the web page for web? Google search for "web"? "Web browser"? "Web web browser"?
(OK, that last search term actually gives the relevant wikipedia page as the first hit. But it's still idiotic.)
"Web" Posted Apr 4, 2012 17:16 UTC (Wed) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
Google search for "GNOME web browser" gives me Epiphany's home page as the first hit.
"Web" Posted Apr 3, 2012 4:16 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
Evidently its name is changing to "Gnome Web". Or "Gnome 3 Web". Or "Gnome3Web". Or something. We can be reasonably confident it's not "GNOME3Web".
We should be thankful they are not calling it "Gnome Internet". Or "Gnome Internet Tourist".
"Web" Posted Apr 3, 2012 4:34 UTC (Tue) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link] "Navigator" -> "Explorer" -> "Konqueror" -> ????
"Web" Posted Apr 3, 2012 10:47 UTC (Tue) by wstephenson (subscriber, #14795) [Link]
"Invader with a humanitarian pretext".
"Web" Posted Apr 3, 2012 14:09 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] Good. This reduces confusion. Can we also rename "GNOME" to "Computer"? That way phrases like "Log in to GNOME" and "GNOME desktop" would make more sense to real users. It would also help if "Evolution" were called "Mail" and "Nautilus" were called "Files." Having names for things that are different from their purposes is too much burden for users, which is why all vehicles are called "Car" and not "Mustang" or something, and why we don't name public buildings.
"Web" Posted Apr 3, 2012 16:06 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]
Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/547/
"Web" Posted Apr 4, 2012 9:11 UTC (Wed) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]
The official name of Nautilus is "Files" already. For Evolution, the problem is that the UI combines multiple tasks, like Mail, contacts, and Calendar. Writing two new small frontends called Mail and Calendar would help here.
Gnome for Web Posted Apr 3, 2012 15:26 UTC (Tue) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
Gnome Internet shall be call Gnome4Web and will be an online version :-)
"Web" Posted Apr 12, 2012 8:15 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
I think that is best. The "Web" is just for the application menu and so on. It'll be confusing anywhere else. Same for e.g. "Documents"; confusing anywhere else so just put GNOME in front of it.
So outside name "Web", internal name is "epiphany". I do expect the website to be reflect "Web" at one point though. Though perhaps maybe still with the "epiphany" URL.
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