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What's with the weird names ? :-)

What's with the weird names ? :-)

Posted May 11, 2006 19:03 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: What's with the weird names ? :-) by jospoortvliet
Parent article: Looking forward to KDE 4

>a phonon is some kind of 'sound particle'

So the name is a bad name for a library which deals both with audio AND video. At first glance when I heard about phonon, I thought that it was audio only..
I did have a look on the website, they are beautiful but too much 'marketspeak'/shallow for me..


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