From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:11:14 +0200 Message-ID: <85fy6s4qb1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87vefphy2v.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <7dbe73ed0704220353t3613f56cjab1b828627ded91d@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177240296 28708 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2007 11:11:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:11:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Drew Adams , Emacs-Devel To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 22 13:11:30 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 1HfZyX-0003Ws-N7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:11:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hfa3o-0001hb-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:16:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hfa3m-0001hT-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hfa3k-0001gM-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hfa3k-0001gJ-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:16:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HfZyS-0007v9-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.18]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB56B1E539F; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:11:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.51]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8DC5BD73; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:11:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-022-101.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.22.101]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CCF011AB6; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:11:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 716111C3950B; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:11:15 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0704220353t3613f56cjab1b828627ded91d@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Sun\, 22 Apr 2007 12\:53\:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:69787 Archived-At: "Mathias Dahl" writes: > I was surprised that of all options, "thumbnails" was used, when the > arguments from most people suggests "image-dired" would be the best. > That name gives us both the word "image" which is good for > identifying what it is about, and the word "dired", which is good > because it shows it is a kind of extension to Dired. I agree that > there are some variable and function names that looks a bit goofy > with "dired" in them twice, but it does not strike me as a big > problem. User-accessible variables/options/functions should be fixed to be non-goofy before the release since it does not make sense doing that afterwards and carry the respective obsolete-variable baggage around. Ungoofication of internals can be left until after the release, I guess. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum