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.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    261·
    3 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·
      3 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·
      3 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·
        3 months ago

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

        • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 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·
          3 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·
      3 months ago

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

        • bamboo@lemm.ee
          2·
          3 months ago

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

          • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
            2·
            3 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·
              3 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·
                3 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