Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Apr 2008 05:21:38 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel thread names that might offend users. |
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On Wednesday 2008-04-02 02:28, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: >> >> To settle things down a bit on the bugtrackers, this patch renames all >> offending kernel threads into something that goes better with >> GNOME-based systems. >> Since KDE is essentially dead[...]
Beware of Linus's strong contrary opinion! (You might get called upon.)
>> Also, please let me know if I forgot something.
Since it all seems to be an April's joke, how about the KDE people change _their_ program names so as to
(1) not confuse kernel people [kwin -> kdewin] since apparently, GNOME does it more than just right (who would have thought! "gnome-control-center" is a perfect name, "gcontrolcenter" would have been acceptable too, but "gcc" would not.)
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(2) not look like they did not know the English language. [kontact,kolf,kompare -> contact,golf,compare]
Some are valid in German though [kalzium,konsole] and KDE does seem to have strong .de ties, so I let these go through.
> Did you forget to send this patch yesterday in which case this would have > been more suitable for April 1st?
|Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:54:08 +0200 |From: Johannes Weiner |To: Linux Kernel Mailing List
-- make boldconfig -- to boldly select what no one has selected before
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