I can agree, but the terminal emulator is something I very rarely launch from the command line. I run it from a menu, or an icon. Maybe with keyboard but then its meta+T
The origin of the name are clear, but the name itself should describe what is it because these name can be find out of context.
These names can't be easily understandood without context. And these name will be found without context:
For exemple, you may meet this name in a process list. In this case you don't understand why the process "dwm" is eating a lot of gpu power.
A variable name can be short, because it's name will be found in it's context.
Suckless tools are meant for hardcore *nix hackers who already know how to look up this information, so no, the naming doesn't really matter. Anyone who knows how to use the ps command will also know the man command, so if someone wants to know what that dwm process is, they can just do "man dwm".
Is that a convention, or just what they stand for? (Do the window manager and the menu suck, because they don't have the "s" prefix? Is st static because it doesn't have the "d" prefix? Why do we abbreviate "terminal" but not "menu" / why not follow the established abbreviation of "term" as in xterm, dtterm, eterm, etc.? How come the "s" prefix in sprop and sselp stands for "simple" instead of "suckless"?)
Is plan9 a good name for an operating system? It's named after (arguably) the worst movie ever. It's even bad as a trash movie.
Is the code quality of plan9 bad?
And Linux is named after a rude developer..or Washing-soap..who knows. An Oracle is the opposite you want of a Database, but Intel made a really good promise for others (Meltdown's). Google the searchengine is written wrong -> Goggles and and and ;)
Yeah they try to rewrite history i think, but if you look at the old logo the G looks like Goggles, it's also more logic to call your search-engine goggle, and not a number, but anything is better then BackRub.
Embrear does marketing, adding shiny names make it look better, it's like retina, it mean nothing but people think it mean it's a good screen.
IMO i3 is badly named, I did read it multiple time _in context_ and I only found out later that it was a window manager..
git, java, go and c and are pronouncable name and are most of the time in context.
It's funny that you put firefox in the middle, because when an old person I know started to use computers for his first time, I learned him to use Chrome. When I came back several week later, he was using Internet Explorer.
Why ? Because it's called Internet Explorer and he forgot about chrome.
>>sometimes called a solid-state device or a solid-state disk
>and are most of the time in context.
With git your are right
>because when an old person I know started to use computers for his first time, I learned him to use Chrome.
That's why you exchange the Chrome icon with the Internet explorer one, but let's just call everything Browser or WWW-Explorer ok?
> I did read it multiple time _in context_ and I only found out later that it was a window manager..
Then work on your internal memory system and try to use a search-engine, and don't blame others for it...btw i3 is also a Car, not that your even more confused when someone wants you to show you a i3 in a Parking slot.
>Don't search any further why Desktop Linux distribution are still less used by common people than Windows or Mac.
I choose the tool i like most and that is FreeBSD. And i really give a crap about common users. Who btw use iOS or Android and NOT Windows or Mac, different tools for different jobs.
BTW you know what Metal and DirectX is? And VisualStudio is NOT another Photoshop.
dwm, dmenu, and st.
Good naming is required to have code of good quality. These name are too short, they lack of clarity.
A good name is concise, give the point, and is pronoucable.