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ivan wrote:Another thing the name needs to have is remembrance.

That is why Firefox is an awesome name although it doesn't really mean anything.

I'd agree with you here. Seems to me there's kind of two parts to this:
1. "coolness" / "rememberance" - Is it a name that's descriptive and that makes people curious?
2. "clarity" / "descriptiveness". - Will people find it in the first place? If they happen to skim over the name, will they get what it does, so they'll know if it's something they want?

It is awesome when you can achieve all the things mentioned above (the programs with unique meaningful names that come to mind are Netscape and Inkscape ).

Great examples! I think you just like the word "scape" Maybe it should be called "VectorScape"? lol. Hey... that's not half bad... A "little" close to Inkscape though, I guess.

Since Alec mentioned that he thought Karbon referred to a pencil / drawing, I have to say the name Karbon has grown on me more, as this is a decent analogy. Unfortunately, while it's innacurate, most people think of them as "lead" pencils. I also had to have it pointed out. Heh, maybe I'm reacting more to the name "Karbon14" than "Karbon". I think we can all agree it's better without the "14" at the end. lol.

I prefer karbon, vektor sounds too generic.

Vektorscape, I like that! Or just Vektscape?

Creative names like Karbon shouldn't be thrown away.
Vektor is also worse than KMail or KWrite, because it is the German word for "vector".

The User wrote:Vektor is also worse than KMail or KWrite

OK, I can accept this part as your opinion, but...

because it is the German word for "vector".

Huh?! Should we rename Kword, because "word" is the English word for, well "word"?

Well, KWord and KWrite are uncreative names, but they can be distinguished from any real-world-word. You can identify them as a KDE-program.
Vektor cannot be distinguished from the German word Vektor.