Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 06:44:45 +0200
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> > > ``minimize'' is not modern terminology.  It is simply terminology used
> > > by proprietary window systems.
> > 
> > KDE and AwesomeWM (just to mention the window managers I have installed
> > on this machine) are not proprietary. AFAIK Gnome also uses "minimize"
> > on its user-oriented documentation, so does Xfce and LXQt.
> 
> Po Lu is still right. The question is whether to accept Microsoft's
> intellectual hegemony here (as the GNU/Linux desktop ennvironments
> have done, too lightly for my personal taste) or not.
> 
> Tough question. I clearly side with Po Lu's standpoint here, but can
> understand that there are others.

There's no "standpoint" here.  Our documentation must be easily
interpreted by today's users, and so boycotting terminology we don't
like is silly and futile.  We will be shooting ourselves in the foot.

Once again: the documentation already says that these two are
equivalent, so both terms can be used.  Which one to use in each case
depends on the context; for example, when talking about variables or
functions that include "icon" in their names, using "iconify" is
clearly better (but "minimize" could be mentioned in parentheses as
the alternative, where appropriate).