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I love the K thingI love the K thingPosted Oct 1, 2012 14:14 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)In reply to: I love the K thing by blackbelt_jones Parent article: wlterm: the native Wayland terminal emulator
It's great, but tell me what part of KDE is kthreadd from? I don't use it and I wish to terminate this application.
But seriously, names mean what people want them to mean. A thing's names does not represent it's function, its function represents its name.
> There are a whole lot of other apps that begin with "gnome-", so if I'm trying to open the application with the run command dialogue, I have to type 7 characters before I have any hope of identification for successful completion.
But on the plus side, I can list all GNOME apps by typing gnome-[tab][tab], except for the ones that don't follow the convention. If it were applied universally the {gnome-,g,k} prefix would be much more useful, but it's inconsistent and you still have to guess.
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I love the K thing Posted Oct 2, 2012 10:22 UTC (Tue) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
> great, but tell me what part of KDE is kthreadd from?
That's from the kernel, not kde...
http://www.linuxvox.com/2012/06/what-is-the-kthreadd-proc...
I love the K thing Posted Oct 2, 2012 10:59 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] It seems to me that sorpigal (a) is perfectly aware of this (b) is raising a valid point regarding the overloading of the single-letter prefix 'k'.
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