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Kent James

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May 5, 2010, 1:57:23 PM5/5/10
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I'm getting real tired of calling the common Mozilla mailnews stuff
"mailnews". Mozilla has branded their common stuff as "Gecko". Any
interest in following that with a similar branding for the common stuff
shared by not only Thunderbird but SeaMonkey, Postbox, and others?

Following the lizard scheme, I would propose either "Iguana" or "Skink".
I prefer "Skink".

rkent

Andrew Sutherland

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May 6, 2010, 12:36:37 AM5/6/10
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On 05/05/2010 10:57 AM, Kent James wrote:
> I'm getting real tired of calling the common Mozilla mailnews stuff
> "mailnews". Mozilla has branded their common stuff as "Gecko".

I find the Gecko branding confusing as I believe it is really just
supposed to refer to the layout engine, but frequently stands in for
toolkit or the whole platform.

Mailnews seems pretty straightforward as it describes a directory
structure of stuff that's pretty well correlated. (Gloda is probably
the one thing in the directory tree that is not guaranteed to be used by
all consumers of mailnews.)

Andrew

Kent James

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May 6, 2010, 1:13:02 AM5/6/10
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On 5/5/2010 9:36 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote:
> I find the Gecko branding confusing

So what exactly is the thingy that TB used version 1.9.1 of in TB 3.0,
and is using version 1.9.2 of in TB 3.1? What do you call it if not Gecko?

Siddharth Agarwal

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May 6, 2010, 4:00:45 AM5/6/10
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On 06-05-2010 10:43, Kent James wrote:
> So what exactly is the thingy that TB used version 1.9.1 of in TB 3.0,
> and is using version 1.9.2 of in TB 3.1? What do you call it if not Gecko?

"Mozilla"?

Jason Oster

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May 6, 2010, 10:41:21 AM5/6/10
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"Mozilla platform?"

Philip Chee

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May 6, 2010, 12:00:03 PM5/6/10
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Also see Bug 513527 - What's the name of MailNews?

Phil

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Hawken Rives

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May 6, 2010, 7:40:23 PM5/6/10
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I belive it is called XULRunner.

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Robert Kaiser

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May 9, 2010, 7:51:04 AM5/9/10
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Kent James schrieb:

It's called "Mozilla platform" or if you will, "XULRunner" (even though
that usage dilutes that term originally standing for a specific
reference build of the platform).

Robert Kaiser

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