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

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 08:33:14AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

I think nobody's proposing "boycotting" anything. Helping people to
find things with whichever terms they come in, is, I guess, consensus.

Cheers
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t

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