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New name for Glimpse
by Darryl Wheatley on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @01:24

Thanks Danny for another great Digest and KDE developers for your frenetic work at this turning point in KDE history.

Since the developer mentioned they wanted a "less generic" name for the scanning program than "Glimpse", I propose "KangaScan" since Kooka was an abbreviation of kookaburra, another Australian animal. Kanga is from kangaroo, an indigenous Australian word. Or what about "KoalaScan"? An oxygen icon for either name could look pretty exciting.

I was going to propose DrakScan as an alternative, so the person who proposed Drak for Dragon Player can still see their name make an appearance, :) but after googling it, I see that it's the name of a Mandriva program so it's unavailable :(

Are there other ideas? I guess some people will be wanting a non-English name to reduce the "Anglo-imperialism" in KDE's application names. Kangaroo is not English but an Aboriginal word originally meaning "I don't know" (this is what the Sydney Aborigines said when an Englishman asked them what the animal was called), but is now the name of the cute furry marsupials that are Australia's animal emblem. Still, it would be cool to hear other people's suggestions. Propose a name now, or forever hold your peace! :)

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by Marc on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @02:40

I like "KangaScan" very much, sounds nice and the oxygen icon could be really cool!

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by Hans on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @03:22

"KangaScan", that sounds familiar. Am I the only one who thinks of Kangaskhan? Probably. But it's still quite funny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaskhan

Heh.

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by Bobby on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @03:32

It really sounds like Kangaskhan but I like the name, especially that it has a K at the beginning keeping the KDE tradition :)

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by anonymous on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @04:42

What about "Genghi Skan ?"

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by Matt on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @09:29

Now *that* would have an interesting icon!

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Re: New name for Glimpse - Kangaroo name origins
by Tom Chandler on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @03:02

Actually the Kangaroo was named in Cooktown (Queensland) when Captain Cook's crew were repairing their ship there. The name was derived from the local Aboriginal name for the grey kangaroo.

(As an completely off topic aside: It is technically Cooktown and not Syndey that was the first recorded site of European settlement in Australia- since Captain Cook and his men lived there seven or so weeks in 1770.)

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Re: New name for Glimpse - Kangaroo name origins
by Darryl Wheatley on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @05:05

Oops, I don't want to verse you in a trivia contest :D Shame on me for not verifying my facts (and the "I don't know" meaning is apparently a myth, so my charming frontier tale is falling apart). But thanks for the correct info.

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by blueget on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @10:53

What about a simple "Skan" or "sKan"?

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by Mihas on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @11:41

What about Klimpse?

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by Pieter Bootsma on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @13:45

I was actually happy to see yet another name not being k-ified in it's name. Hell, even one starting with a G ;) I do like Glimpse as a name, and that it is a word used often should not stop you from using it. As long as there is no other (comparable) software with the name, you're fine I would say.

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by yman on Friday 04/Jan/2008, @00:40

in modern Hebrew a scanner is a sorek.

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by Marc Driftmeyer on Friday 04/Jan/2008, @03:41

Keep Glimpse. Along with Phonon, Plasma and other non-K names this one works.

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Re: New name for Glimpse
by reihal on Friday 04/Jan/2008, @07:09

Cornea is much better.
No need for a k.

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