[LMMS-devel] R: LMMS possible name change

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Ogg: [LMMS-devel] LMMS possible name change







After reading all the comments on a possible name change for LMMS, I
wonder, what reasons does everyone have to suggest a change? I like
LMMS and never found it hard to pronounce as one person suggested, but
I'm sure people have valid reasons for why they want it changed.



I like the idea of calling it LM Studio. I also like LMS, keeping one
letter per word rather than making multimedia into two letters (MM),
which is a bit confusing and hard to remember.



As mentioned LMMS is inspired by FL Studio, which is derived from
Fruity Loops, which is in turn derived from the Kellogg's cereal Fruit
Loops as a bit of a play on words. While it may be clever to directly
associate LMMS's name with the popular app, I don't know if that's a
good idea long term. LM Studio may not make people immediately think of
FL Studio, so it could work pretty well as a name with a subtle nod to
its closed-source big brother.



I suggest either keeping the name the same, calling it LMS or LM
Studio, or coming up with something completely new. As was similarly
posted before, here's a word list I came up with for some possibilities:



Audio

Canvas

Compose[r]

Conduct[or]

Dub

Edit[or]

Mix[er]

Modulation

Muse

Music

Note

Produce[r]

Score

Sequence[r]

Sound

Studio

Synthesis

Wave



I'm a big fan of using one or more words from a non-English language.
Latin works well across all cultures since no one really speaks it
regularly anymore, so that's one option. Here are some examples of the
cool stuff you can come up with using Latin:




http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl?music


http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl?sound



To cherry-pick a few:



Sound

Adsono

Altisonus

Canorus

Circumsonus

Insono

Sonitus

Sonor

Vox


Music

Cantus

Modulor

Musa

Musaeus

Symphonia


Anyway, I'm down with changing the name if everyone thinks it's a good
idea, but definitely think the syndrome of Linux apps with crazy names
should be avoided (LINFL = LMMS Is Not Fruity Loops = God, someone
shoot me).

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