From kde-devel  Wed Jun 23 22:31:47 1999
From: Rik Hemsley <rik () rikkus ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:31:47 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: RE: A question on terminology (fwd)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93017619104172


On 23-Jun-99 Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that's a stupid argument. Minimise is what it should be, as that's what
it's always been. We're not cloning MS Windows here, and anyway, it doesn't
'iconify' so 'iconify' is not only incorrect English, it's just plain incorrect.

Note 'Minimise' for en_gb ;)
            ~

Cheers,
Rik


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