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Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names



On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:33:35 +0100
Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> wrote:

> >> * gnomevfs -> GnomeVFS
> >   * gnome-vfs -> GnomeVFS
> >   * GNOME VFS -> GnomeVFS
> >   * Gnome VFS -> GnomeVFS
> >   * Gnome-VFS -> GnomeVFS
> >   * GnomeVfs  -> GnomeVFS
> >   * Gnome-Vfs -> GnomeVFS
> 
> I'm not a GNOME expert, but is there any reason why a GNOME component
> capitalise differently GNOME?

GnomeVFS is used by GNOME but it does not require GNOME itself. It
isn't a "part of GNOME" and in some ways it could be called GVFS to
indicate a relationship with libglib2.0-0 (used by all GNOME libraries
and lots of none-GNOME ones).

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Neil Williams
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