• NameChange

Conkeror Name Change

Many people vehemently dislike the name Conkeror because it is vocally indistinguishable from Konqueror, KDE's web browser, which causes confusion. Submit your ideas for a new name below, or send them to the mailing list. Feel free to include a rationale.

Please read the guidelines before submitting.

Guidelines

• No stupid puns or campy jokes. Shouldn't be too silly.
• No Emacs or Mozilla references, or references to other softwares in general.
• No browser war references.
• No acronyms.

• No InterCaps names.

• English words are preferred.
• Try to achieve some combination of creative, friendly, inspiring, classy, unique, or odd.

• Verify that your name (or one very close to it) isn't a well-known trademark. Google should be helpful.

• Verify that your name (or one very close to it) isn't already used by other software. Freshmeat should be helpful.

• Verify that your name isn't in the "Rejected Suggestions" list.

Suggestions

• Aesculus (the genus of the horse chestnut, or conker)

• Cheeser/Cheesers (See this page.)

• Cheggy/Cheggies (See this page.)

• Conkers (See this page and this page for why only the plural should be used)

• Obblyonkers/Obblyonkeror (See this page.)

• Trajan (a Roman emperor)

• Caduceus (staff/symbol of Hermes & Mercury, Greek & Roman messenger gods)

• Walkabout
• fuga (Among the most polyphonous and intellectually rigorous of all musical forms. Fuga is Latin for flight or avoidance, as in running away.)

• TenFingers (For the browser that frees you from the one-finger mouse.)

• Eldorado (See this page.)

• Conkerororg (so that you don't have to adjust the domain name)

Rejected Suggestions

• Acronyms
  • CIEFTI (Conkeror Is Emacs For The Internet)
  • CINK (Conkeror is not Konqueror)
  • CWAC (Conkeror-with-a-C)
• References to Emacs or Mozilla
  • Geckomacs
  • Xulmacs
  • Mozmacs
  • Firemacs
  • webmacs
• Used by other software
  • Rubicon ("crossing Rubicon", famous Italian river with history from the Roman empire)