Re: ITP: adun.app -- a Molecular Simulator
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:12:04PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:24:21PM +1000, Steffen Joeris wrote:
> > > * Package name : adun.app
> > Maybe I miss some essential parts, but I always wonder why some people add
> > a .app to the software name? Can you please give me a short explanation or
> > point me to a previous thread?
>
> IIRC .app is usually used by apps with gnustep support (e.g. WindowMaker
> dockapps). It doesn't normally mean they only work on gnustep though,
> just that they use some features from gnustep, when available.
Just like all the stuff that prepends 'k' or mispells its initial letter as
'k'.
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