What does XFCE mean?

Ondrej Mihalyi mihalyi at matfyz.cz
Wed Jun 1 18:09:53 CEST 2005


How about changing the name to XFace :)

Just a shot into the dark...

On Tue, 31 May 2005 20:54:27 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

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> Jeff Franks wrote:
> > Just wondering,
> > 
> > In my search for possible replacement names for thunar I came across 
> > this definition of XFCE - Xforms Cool Enviroment. Is this correct?
> 
> IIRC, it used to be XForms Common Environment.  But since Xfce is no
> longer written using XForms, it really doesn't mean anything anymore.
> Hence the new non-acronym-like capitalisation.
> 
> 	-brian
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