Name Suggestion for native Haiku Web Browser

"Breeze".

I, too, like the connotation of "Tranquility", but, as a few contributors have pointed out and admitted, it suffers from being " does not roll off the tongue". So I hope "Breeze" brings the feel and arouses association of experience similar to "Tranquility".

But I'll add:

Whatever name Ryan has his personal preference to and decision on should have our full respect. Who else is best entitled to naming his application? But it is great to see how this tread can excite the imaginations of many, and how people "brainstorm" free.

Yeah. Got a bit carried away by my own genius. Sorry. Won't happen again ;) Or it might...

Klapaucius

Serenity gets my vote - it's what I feel whenever I'm using Haiku ;)
SurfBoard is a close second...

Great name! Very positive.

And we can keep the surfer icon. :}

I definitely like Prose for a word processor. Serenity is also good. Limmerick or so would be nice. NetPoetry is also nice. Won't someone start a poll or something?

Cheeth

vegas

Salty

breeze

zephyr

seawalker

waveraker

I would like to poit that Explorer (from Microsoft), Voyager (Amiga) and Sputnik (Amiga too) are all web browser names related to some space engines (satellites or probes). So Mir and Viking could be added to this list, too.
And we can still go trough the list of things sent to space. There are a lot of interesting names to pick there.

What about:

Icarus <- in honor to the sun that gives us all the light and heat needed to live, source of life for the whole planet and a witness of thousands of years of evolution.

Ikrus to fit more with Haiku style.

So I'm a bit late to this party but since traditional Haiku contains a reference to a season and one of the common references is momiji (Colored Leaves) and since the Haiku logo is also colored leaves, I suggest momiji as the browser name.

In my opinion, Tranquility is still far from perfect, it's not an easy word to remember, it's not a long word, but hard to spell for the non-english territory people. Apple is being referred a lot in the Be / Haiku scene, they choose the most plain names one can think of for their applications. That's because a LOT of people have to use, remember, and refer to them on forums etc. The "i" is their so called trademark, like iTunes, iMovie, but they use simple words like Mail too. If you see those names, at the first sight you instantly now what the purpose of the application is. Ironically, Safari (the web browser) requires some thinking, but safari can be linked to exploration (explorer), so after all it's not that bad. But if I first look at the name Tranquility, the last thing I can think of is a web browser without knowing the purpose of the application. For a splinter cell like action game, it's perfect. As for the best one I ran into this thread, I think Surfer is the ultimate winner. It's plain as hell, easy to link the name and the function, and super easy to remember. And all kind of people from children to grandmas in all countries will understand it. Please, consider this again:)

Having thought of a few ideas, the ones I like most are 'Synapse' and 'Compass'. The prior suggests nodes connecting to each other and hence the web, the latter implies navigation of the web. I think the prior is a more evocative, beautiful word, but the latter is easier to say and better suited for internationalisation.

Aside from that, the idea of space names is pretty good too. 'Mir' is pretty good, although people will always associate it with the former Russian space station, and 'Cosmos' is nice as well. I don't mind 'Tranquility' or 'Serenity' either, the latter will remind many of the TV series though.

Personally, I think short one-or-two syllable names work best, and that names which consist of words combined, particularly in CamelCase, feel very dated. I think any name chosen should be forward looking and represent something elegant.

I think the Haiku community should do a brainstorm to figure out some sort of sensible, coherent 'pattern' for naming the different parts of the OS. I know this may seem premature, but one of the big problems that Linux has had is that they have terrible, non-obvious, ugly names for everything, especially with the K-prefix for KDE applications, and changing names after the fact is difficult.

How about Sonnet?

When I hear compass I think of Netscape for some reason.
Synapse...eh, doesn't mean anything. Sonnet stays with the
poetic theme.

I registered an account just to post that "Publicity" is the best name for a browser I've heard since Safari (which is itself the best name since Mosaic). I do not particularly like the names Firefox, Chrome, Explorer, Voyager, Navigator, Omniweb, etc. But anything about poetry, japanese, or surfing is worse, and compound words with a capitalized letter in the middle is the worst of all! And Tranquility or Serenity are names I'd give to programs that BLOCKED you from going on the web...

edit: hm, just "City" wouldn't be bad either

How about stealing "Senryu".

Compass! What a perfect name. I already see the icon for it, wow. :) Nice work brainstorming here:)

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i like the idea that invokes the idea of a journey like:

Pilgrim
NetTraveller

or named for an explorer such as:

Magellan (SP?) or Marco Polo

or to take the Be prefix, if there is going to be, as i think there should be, an app that integrates blogging tools, web browsing, chat/icq/irc clients, Voip and video chat,

we can call it BeConnected, HaiKonnected?

The best name for a native Haiku Browser would be...
Browser.

I know it breaks the nice Net.../Web... naming-scheme and it has no reference to Haiku/BeOS, but:
Most of the names that have been dropped here have little to no meaning to a user that is completely
new to Haiku.

Today, the Browser is one of the most important tools on a computer. A user should not
have to thin about or event to search for it.

Furthermore, Browser - in it's humble simplicity - stands for everything Haiku stands for: Clarity, simplicity - serenity.

The name Browser for - well, the browser - makes you (at least it makes me) feel like there is absolutely no doubt about what you can expect when you click the icon/menu entry the first time: A streamlined, efficient tool to browse the web that does not get in your way and let's you do the job.

What do you think?

As much as I love to come up with names, I'd be okay with Browser. Outside of Haiku it could be referred to as the "Haiku Browser". It doesn't have to have a name unless its meant to be cross-platform. Granted, it will be an important part of Haiku, but still just another Haiku application.

Actually I do not want this discussion to be a 'bikeshed' discussion so I did not submit any suggestion recently, and would not.
However, today my wife suggested a name so I post it here. (actually, I was forced to :) )

How about 'Andromeda'?
It is well known to many people over the world, and sounds pretty, and gives us feeling of exploration (of course not 'sea' but 'the space'). If the name does not imply it is a web browser, than you may call it 'Andromeda Browser'.

my favorites are

kumo
Hawaii

and here is my suggestion

すづくり [suzukuri] - meaning: building a web

PS: can you guys put a poll it would be helpful!

I didn't read all the comment, but here's my suggestion:

Ginko Browser

Ginko is a Haiku-related word that means "A walk outside to observe nature and write haiku" that could mean: "Going to surf the web to observe all the net and enjoy it"

Taiko would be a great name for a messaging app

+1 Serenity

+1 Hawaii

+1 NetPoetic

Although I would always shorten NetPoetic to Netic. It has connotations to 'kinetic' and (to a lesser degree) 'connect'.