Fwd: Re: [Planner Dev] Suggestion regarding file extensions: suggesting compressed XML files.

[Mark Durrenberger <m durrenberger comcast net>]

How about .plx (planner xml)
How and  .plz for (planner zip)

if 4  letters are used then perhaps

plnx and plnz  (at first I tried plax but it made me think of my teeth :-)

Mark



> .pnr sounds a bit like "personal number" and nothing like a plan of any
> sort.
>
> > I'm also concerned that "Planner" on its own is not free of
> > trademark/copyright globably whereas the compound product name
> > of "GNOME Planner"  if almost certainly not trademarked.
> > This use of two words is a good way of protecting a name
> > e.g. "Microsoft Word" or "Microsoft Office" is the product
> > name though everyone says "Office" or "Word" -both or which
> > are generic names.
>
> Question is, do we need to trademark Planner? We had a thought of
> calling it Imendio Planner when we changed the name, perhaps we should
> go ahead and doing so.
>
> > .gpn  - for the regular XML files (i.e. mrproject)
> > .gpz  - for the future Gzippped format (if we go that way)
>
> Not sure that we should change the suffix then. The suffix doesn't need
> to be only three letter either, so if we can come up with a better name
> than .mrproject (which is a really lousy name these days ;) that is like
> four letters that's totally fine.
>
> Regards,
>   Mikael Hallendal
> --
> Imendio HB, http://www.imendio.com/
>
>
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