On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 13:27, Alan Horkan wrote:
Inkspace is a pretty cool name too!
Yeah, I still feel a bit torn now and then...
The artists dont have English as their first language, so I dont blame them at all (fair criticism though).
Native Anglophones tend to get confused, too, I think because:
* 'Inkscape' and 'Inkspace' are anagrams; I'd imagine it causes some pain for dyslexics
* the 'ksc' in 'Inkscape' is a long enough run of hard consonants to be mildly uncomfortable for English-speakers
* 'Inkscape' is similarly slightly more awkward to touch-type quickly (at least for me, on a QWERTY keyboard) -- RRRLLLRL versus RRRLRLLR.
Even now I confuse them occasionally -- and I'm the one that coined the name!
That said, I still prefer Inkscape because of the imagery; I think it works better with our branding efforts (and it spawned a kickass logo).
-mental