From kde-devel Wed Jun 23 20:29:50 1999 From: Cristian Tibirna Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:29:50 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: A question on terminology (fwd) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93016897029118 Hello This is a message from Erich Forler, member of the team of our newest development companions at Corel. He isn't yet subscribed to the list and asked me to forward this. See my comments after. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:34:23 -0400 From: Erich Forler To: ctibirna@gch.ulaval.ca Subject: A question on terminology Hi Cristian, I'm interested in the history of the use of the word "Iconify" as opposed to "Minimize" in the KDE applications. I have three difficulties with this word. First, it's not a word in the English language (at least not in my dictionary). Second, it's not the natural opposite of Maximize and third, it's different from Windows. Can you tell me if there was much discussion on the use of this word? Thanks Erich --------------------- In my private correspondence with a few KDE fellows, everybody agreed that "Iconify" should be returned back to X's antiquity and we start use "Minimize" instead. I had an anti-argument where I pointed out to "minimize" also meaning "denigrate" but I believe it was a quite childish argument. What do you think? Cristian ---- Cristian Tibirna : ctibirna@total.net : www.total.net/~ctibirna PhD Student : ctibirna@gch.ulaval.ca : web.gch.ulaval.ca/~ctibirna KDE contact - Canada : tibirna@kde.org : www.kde.org