There is already a terminal emulator named KiTTY. How will you differentiate your emulator from it?

[anothermindbomb]

KiTTY is a fork of PuTTY - you can find it at http://kitty.9bis.net/

You may want to differentiate your product from KiTTY so that google knows the difference...

[kovidgoyal]

As far as I can tell, the other kitty is windows only and this kitty does not run on windows, so the potential for name conflicts is low. As such, I am not particularly motivated to change the name. As for googlability -- hopefully this kitty will overtake the other kitty soon ;)

That said, I am not adamantly opposed to changing the name, it's just not something I see much need for at the moment, it's more important to get it working and bug free right now.

[Natanji]

Just wanna chime in to say that Kitty runs perfectly under Windows. Ubuntu for Windows exists and works great. ;)

[aperson]

That has nothing to do with the naming conflict.

[epsilon-phase]

Just call it YAKitty, for yet another kitty

[ibrokemypie]

+1 the other kitty is all that comes up in google when looking for info, or if this one appears, the results are still swamped.

[bradens]

Naming conflicts are more problematic when doing searching for kitty related resources. I think that it needs a name change unfortunately.

[lonjil]

I've been switching to Kitty, but it has been mostly impossible to find any resources by googling.

[dlong500]

Yeah, given that the other Kitty is still a terminal emulator it's really a bad choice to name it Kitty regardless of which operating systems either of the apps run on. Aside from search engine problems it just creates confusion all around.

[bunnitech]

I can't believe I'm suggesting this, but maybe Nyaotty, maybe said sort of like like 'naughty' with a Meowth accent? I'm currently no longer using or interested in Kitty until this problem is resolved, either for the sake of clarity or professional courtesy. Note that KiTTY is the currently (actively) maintained fork of PuTTY which has been in use since 22-Jan-1999. I think this is a bit like calling a newly invented ice cream flavor 'rocky road'. While that isn't a trademarked name, and isn't the most popular ice cream flavor, many people may believe they know what rocky road describes in the context of ice cream and may expect something other than the new product. That, and Google is confused apparently, but what else is new there? The glaring issue I see as far as clarity issues is that both are terminal emulators, kind of. One remote, one local, but probably confusing if I told a noob friend to go check out 'kitty terminal' and they put that in a search engine, don't you think? Search results for issues similar to kitty + character encoding are not going to be very clear as the project grows. I'm not sure this issue should be closed.

[ticolensic]

I have come here in search for Kitty for Windows.

[irth]

I wanted to look for some ready-to-use color schemes for Kitty and it's practically impossible

[Notaduck]

@irth why not just use xresources colorcheme and remove the *. And = ?

[jtl999]

MeowKitty?

[spejamchr]

Witty?

[adbX]

@Notaduck Could you please tell me what exactly do you mean by that? I've been looking for a way to import xresources into kitty for a while without much progress.

[SolitudeSF]

@adbX just run a sed script. remove *. and :. the names are the same, except Xresources cursorColor is just cursor in kitty.
or if you want the hard way, you could parse the output of xrdb and feed it to kitty @ set-colors

[anton-malakhov]

I guess people will keep coming and raise this issue. I'm not even sure I want to even try this one since the naming conflict will keep bugging me, so the conflict is not actually good for advertisement either

[hovissimo]

So even when this project overtakes the other KiTTY in Google's search results there's still a problem. Now when people are trying to find results for the Windows SSH client they'll find this project instead.

@kovidgoyal "As for googlability -- hopefully this kitty will overtake the other kitty soon ;)" This attitude is rude and selfish.

[kovidgoyal]

You know, when this issue was first opened I was perfectly willing to consider a name change, as I posted in my reply to this issue. Then I saw the thread on reddit where lots of people called me names for daring to not listen to them.

@hovissimo Thank you for that post, that reminded me of that thread and has convinced me never to change kitty's name. So good bye and good luck.