1130715 - please change name of Thunderbird to something nicer

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Jim Michaels]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150122214805

Steps to reproduce:

name grates on me. Thunderbird is NOT a nice bird. it attacks people, has nasty teeth, and it's big and has leather wings. Indians were afraid of it. 



Actual results:

nothing


Expected results:

please change Thunderbird to SparrowMail or SwanMail or DoveMail (not sure if that should be done?)

Comment 1

[Jim Michaels]

please make these changesa to the code, the GUI controls, windows, dialogs, etc, and documentation and web site.
a few case-sensitive global word search and replaces should do the job.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Thunderbird is a well known name with a long history.
Changing the name would mean that you have to change thousand lines of code, changing icons and change websites.
Who should do that work, you ?
And who should pay for registering new domain names and for the legal check if the new name is usable is several countries ?
Dovemail would for example already conflict with the Dovecot Email server.

And that all because you do not like the name ?
I like the name for example.

Anyway, this is a wontfix as bug and bugzilla is not the right place to discuss something like this.
Please use the newsgroups/mailinglists