[Thunar-dev] Name suggestion

Jens Luedicke jens.luedicke at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 21:28:46 CEST 2005


j Mak wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> My suggestion is “sweeper”. The word has a wide range
> of connotative sense. It can be associated with
> orderliness,  dynamism, even adventure
> (mine-sweeper-files can be dangerous as mines) 
> When you chose a name you also have to take into
> account that many xfce users are not English speakers,
> therefore it makes sense to avoid long words and names
> with consonant clusters or phrases with the
> interdental sound of “th” which is hard to pronounce
> for non-natives. 
> 

I would associate a file removal/eraser (wipe frontend)
with "sweeper".


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Jens Luedicke
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