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Classic mode, cool!

Classic mode, cool!

Posted Mar 28, 2013 8:44 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950)
In reply to: Classic mode, cool! by JoeBuck
Parent article: GNOME 3.8 released

The name of "classic" mode was discussed in the open various times. Once on marketing-list. The fear behind calling it classic mode is that it might cause confusion because various distributions used that name for the fallback mode. It is quite difficult to think up of a name which is clear while at the same time does not create confusion. With clear I mean that you do not want to overpromise things with a name (imply that it does more than it is intended to do).

Participation in these kind of discussions is welcome, just join the relevant list. Marketing team also holds meetings, only requirement is being able to connect and having a headphone + microphone.

Obviously it would be better if we could really get data behind every decision. E.g. like when a company is searching for a name and actually tests various names on their target audience.


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