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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    A question on terminology (fwd)
From:       Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna () total ! net>
Date:       1999-06-23 20:29:50
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Hello

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See my comments after.


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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:34:23 -0400
From: Erich Forler <erichf@corel.ca>
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
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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

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