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Re: Inconsistent spelling of QT and GNOME



On 04/11/01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Nov 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 04 Nov 2001, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > > 15 packages are using QT, while 33 packages use Qt. And 93 packages are
> > > using Gnome, while 127 are using GNOME. This should be changed, since
> > > it's called QT and GNOME and not Qt or Gnome. Since this issue effects

> > So far, so good.

> No, not that good. For that many packages, one probably wants to bring the
> question up on -devel before filling out the bug reports. Heh, IMHO they

See my other mail about this.

> should be called Qt and Gnome, because neither deserve the all-caps :P

That depends on the exact writing that the upstream uses. If i.e the
upstream uses GNOME everywhere, then we should also use it. 

> But this is a very minor issue, and will not receive more than a whishlist
> sent-to-maintainer-only bug, I hope.

And therefor don't improve our quality or show the interest of
developers in consistent package descriptions. Thanks for knowing that
quality in those areas doesn't seem to matter or concern developers
anymore.

Christian
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