Pronunciation of "metacity" (was Manage window: change positions, etc.)
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From: Stephen Powell on 24 Mar 2010 09:10 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." The fact that he put that blurb in there at all also indicates that many people were pronouncing it incorrectly and therefore the author felt it necessary to address the topic. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinuxman(a)wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/450227109.21306391269435686440.JavaMail.root(a)md01.wow.synacor.com |