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From: Ron Johnson on 23 Mar 2010 18:50 On 2010-03-23 16:39, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:55:00 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: >> GNOME is a DE (Desktop Environment). It's standard WM is Metacity >> (rhymes with mendacity and audacity). > > Well, you learn something new every day, if you stay awake. > (That's what my grandfather always used to say.) > I always pronounced it "meta city" (similar to "fat city"). > I thought it was an appropriate name, since when used by itself > (i.e. without GNOME) you use the "Meta" key (i.e. the Alt key) > for just about everything! Oh well. > From an old metacity README: Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also it may have something to do with the Meta key on UNIX keyboards. So, not audacity but opacity. -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BA94475.9070506(a)cox.net
From: Ron Johnson on 24 Mar 2010 09:20
On 2010-03-24 08:01, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:45:09 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: >> From an old metacity README: >> Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but >> rather Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. >> metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also it may have >> something to do with the Meta key on UNIX keyboards. >> > > I don't doubt the truth of your claim. I mean, there it is in > print from the upstream author. It just surprised me. But > even the author hints that this may not have been the original > pronunciation. > > "Also it may have something to do with the Meta key > on UNIX keyboards." Right. It's still meta-ness (whether the state of being meta or from the Meta key). > The fact that he put that blurb in there at all also indicates > that many people were pronouncing it As I did for quite a while... -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BAA0F3A.8020804(a)cox.net |