psychicdragon
June 5th, 2006, 12:46 PM
This is a pretty trivial thing, but it kind of irks me for some reason. Xfce is no longer an acronym (just like Gnome) because it doesn't mean what it originally did anymore. It would be nice if you could correct this.
From the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce):
The name "Xfce" originally stood for "XForms Common Environment", but since then, Xfce was rewritten twice and doesn't use XForms toolkit any more. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as "XFce", but "Xfce". The developers' current stance is that the acronym doesn't stand for anything any more. The installer for the Xfce and Slackware-based distro Zenwalk labels the description for Xfce as the "Cholesterol Free Desktop Environment" as Slackware has done in the past.
From the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce):
The name "Xfce" originally stood for "XForms Common Environment", but since then, Xfce was rewritten twice and doesn't use XForms toolkit any more. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as "XFce", but "Xfce". The developers' current stance is that the acronym doesn't stand for anything any more. The installer for the Xfce and Slackware-based distro Zenwalk labels the description for Xfce as the "Cholesterol Free Desktop Environment" as Slackware has done in the past.