Re: Use of "UNIX"

From: Zbigniew Chyla <cyba gnome pl>
To: Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>
Cc: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Use of "UNIX"
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:57:50 +0100

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 16:17:53, Sander Vesik wrote:

> > The gnome-terminal desktop file has:
> > 
> >  Comment=Enter UNIX commands
> > 
> > I'm not sure "Enter UNIX commands" is a great description of a
> > terminal program, but more specifically, I think "UNIX" here is
> > inappropriate. Many systems that GNOME runs on are not legally "UNIX".
> > (...)
> 
> Why not just change it to "enter shell commands" - it is not clear what an
> (...)

Why not just stop changing localizable strings? February 18th was string
freeze day!


Zbigniew

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