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Why are privacy/copyleft advocates so bad at naming?
They usually don't have marketing departments or focus groups.
You obviously don't need those to come up with a good name; just some taste. Signal is a great example. Ladybird and Servo are good browser names if you want to stick to that. LibreWolf? Jesus, come on guys. Forgejo is another terrible name I heard recently. Apparently it's Esperanto, like that makes it ok somehow.
God forbid some non-anglophone culture enters our collective consciousness.
It's Latin-derived, the pronunciation would be easier for Romance language natives, I guess.
That said, all languages are made up.
What would you call it instead?
We already have (had) Iceweasel, IceCat and Waterfox among others. All nice word plays on the original Firefox name. LibreWolf follows along the same path.
You don't have to use the exact same naming scheme. But even if you did it's pretty trivial to come up with better names. I bet even ChatGPT can do it. Here's the list it came up with for me:
Ok most are pretty trash but Stonehawk is good. Maybe Thunderwolf. Still better than LibreWolf.
…proceeds to not do it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You don't think Stonehawk is a better name than LibreWolf? Kind of proving my point there.
No, I don't, does that also prove your point?
the largest problem with librewolf is the difficult pronunciation, I think, just as with forgejo. stonehawk is easy, as is not a terrible name either. maybe "stone" is not terribly interesting, though. but it still seems to be an improvement for me.
what is your take on it? why do you think it's not better?
I just think that they are pretty much same interest-wise, and LibreWolf at least tries to convey some meaning
don’t sleep on frost owl. Owl heads are kind of round so it would make a good icon.
Mintest, after only just (*inhales)
13 YEARS
finally rebranded to... something starting with "Lua". And I already forget the rest of the name because FOSS people suck at naming.
And I only even remembered the first part because I had once written mods in Lua, Mintest's scripting language of choice. Good luck for name recognition with anybody else.
As someone who doesn't mind this name, what makes it bad?
EDIT: Someone below said difficult pronunciation. So talking about it in real life would be difficult.
It also might be relevant that I am very bad at naming things myself.
Difficult pronunciation and it also sounds like a lame "cool" name that a super nerd would think of.