The codenames for every major Debian release are named after characters from Pixar’s Toy Story franchise. Debian’s unstable release is fittingly named after Sid, an unstable character from the Toy Story movies.

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
    35·
    2 months ago

    I find it kinda sad that KDE is attempting to stop it’s series of K-puns. I suspect that some app names are/were intentionally bad. Like Kcalc instead of Kalculator? Kome on…

    • superkret@feddit.org
      261·
      2 months ago

      Their app names were one of the main reasons I disliked KDE for a long time.
      It’s just objectively impractible when half the software installed on your pc starts with the same letter.
      But Gnome and Xfce aren’t any better in that regard.

      • Strykker@programming.dev
        25·
        2 months ago

        Gotta say though it’s kinda nice when you run an update to be able to tell ah yes KDE apps are being upgraded when you see the wall of Ks

      • bitfucker@programming.dev
        2·
        2 months ago

        I never understood this argument. Why does having common first letter bad? If you mean subjectively then sure, it may not be for everyone, but objectively?

        • Hule@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          Because if you want to start them by typing their names, autocomplete kicks in later.

          • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
            4·
            2 months ago

            There’s a solution for that tho: Tags. If you have sane (default) tags, you type ‘terminal’ and konsole pops up. And I feel like KDE mostly has that.

          • saigot@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 months ago

            I think it can be helpful to separate “built in” gui tools with everything else, having them all under one letter accomplishes that.

      • bamboo@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

        Is gnome that bad? They seem to have been moving away from weird names for many years now.

          • bamboo@lemm.ee
            2·
            2 months ago

            In the branding, but the name of the installed applications in the UI do not contain “gnome”.

            • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
              2·
              2 months ago

              It’s not just the branding, it’s the actual command.

              Do you want to launch the hardware monitor? gnome-system-monitor. The terminal? gnome-terminal. And so forth.

              Your DE They will give these clearer and easier names to search from the menu, as well as more recognisable icons, but that’s not on Gnome

              Still makes the command slightly more of a PITA

              • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 months ago

                Do you think DEs just have a huge list of package names to app names, or how do you imagine this would work?

                In reality, it’s of course fully on Gnome, as it’s part of their code. Nobody except for Gnome has anything to do with the name that’s being shown.

                • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  I did think it worked like that but the package maintainers setting these does make more sense. Thanks for letting me know!

                  I also edited my comment to reflect this