On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:01:27AM -0600, Dan Churchill wrote: > Of course it's silly - otherwise why would it be more fun to ask in public. > However, there was a serious point to Ben's original message with which I > agree: > "So perhaps part of the future of desktop Linux will be for > applications to start calling themselves by names (and > icons) that are intuitive instead of inside jokes." > One of the most difficult aspects that newcomers to Linux experience, I > think, is figuring out what program they need to do what, and the naming > conventions, while colorful and all that, don't help matters. > > So maybe what we need is an *up-to-date* list of open source software, what > it's named, and what it does. http://freshmeat.net? > Any time I've ever needed a Linux program to > do something new, it's always a big Internet research project to figure out > what the available apps are, even though they were probably already > installed with my everything-including-the-kitchen-sink RedHat installation, > and *that* is what is truly silly. It might be silly but "There must be only one!" 1. You just can't have two programs with the same name! I don't want to start an "Internet Explorer"-named-project and neither Microsoft. 2. The language evolves and new words appear. Imagine having to use _only_ ancient words in today's world just for the sake of "convenience" to newbies/dumb/etc... My command of [Ancient|Common] English is not good enough to generate such examples (maybe radio...) but imagine the sillyness of that. If everybody wears "shoes", soon people will need to differentiate them "Shoes from Arthur" sucks but "Shoes from Ian" are great. florin > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Florin Iucha > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:40:29PM -0600, Ben Stallings wrote: > > > So why is it, exactly, that the KDE archiver program isn't > > named archiver? > > > Did its programmers start calling it "ark" to save the trouble > > of pronouncing > > > two extra syllables, or did an early release allow only two of > > each kind of > > > file? (I suppose I could write to the authors, but asking in > > public is more > > > fun. ;-) --Ben > > > > Ben, this is silly. PS: Initially I wanted explain that "Ben" is silly because the proper way is (probably) Benjamin, and that even Benjamin is silly since he is a man so Man should be enough (How do you explain to a three-eyed newbie monster that there is Ben and Mark when for him both are equally tasty). I didn't because I truly don't want to offend Ben in any way and I thought the joke/pun will be more obvious. Again, Ben, my apologies. -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020131/7cd46bed/attachment.pgp