From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:52:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87slb8szz9.fsf@debby.local.net> <87wt0frzs0.fsf@debby.local.net> <7dbe73ed0704161136k1f54e5c7j6e49b63504d7f0e4@mail.gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0704180502l764ed06ckbab38d16ae29ad37@mail.gmail.com> <864pncaeyc.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <7dbe73ed0704190546x7324d704iffd8beabb6bc9ad7@mail.gmail.com> <874pnc1o42.fsf@gmx.at> <7dbe73ed0704190643s42dfa2d7x4c7ff6afb2b7697d@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177081039 10584 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2007 14:57:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:57:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, nickrob@snap.net.nz, storm@cua.dk, markus.triska@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 16:57:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HeuXu-0000LV-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:57:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Heucy-00047c-Sw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:02:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HeubI-0002P6-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:00:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HeubH-0002OL-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HeubG-0002O1-UU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HeuWB-00082R-UX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HeuTf-0006VI-Gi; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:52:47 -0400 In-reply-to: <7dbe73ed0704190643s42dfa2d7x4c7ff6afb2b7697d@mail.gmail.com> (mathias.dahl@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69699 Archived-At: In a way, you are correct. What tumme does is just display files, files that just happen to be images. I guess most of what it does can be applied to many types of files. Still, the primary use is images and I suspect that will be the case for a long time. But I might be wrong. It is mainly for images, but it is not the only way Emacs can display images. What is special about tumme is that it displays small versions of things. I.e., thumbnails. So it makes sense to use the term "thumb" in a name for this mode. But we should use it in English, not in Swedish. World-wide, lots more Emacs users know English than know Swedish. Even if Tumme is not limited to operating on (strictly speaking) images, displaying on videos will be a less common use, and it is a natural extension of displaying images. So I think that it is also fine to use the word "image" in a new name for Tumme. There is no need to reject it. How about `thumbnail-images'?