On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:14:07 +1000, Richard James wrote:

> Mark South wrote:
>
>>> As usual, I ended up reading the whole load of it anyway. One thing
>>> that confused me was that the config files in /etc/X11/xdm are
>>> hard-linked to / usr/lib/X11/xdm.
>>
>> Oh don't, you're making me all nostalgic for the 20th century, when men
>> were men, X was spelt with a capital letter, and configuration files
>> were REAL configuration files.
>
> My old X programming books call it "X Window System". But I notice that
> everyone nowdays calls it the X Windows System, which actually makes
> more sense.

Well, if you can draw one window you can draw more. We don't talk about
the "brakes system" or the "suspensions system" on your car. So the
first is better.

> Sometimes new things are not all that bad after all. Take
> directories vs folders for instance[1]. I would call them directories
> anyday but the folder analogy makes far more sense that the directory
> analogy.

I still think of them as directories, but when I'm speaking out loud I
always say "folder". Years of working with Mac and Windows people will
do that to one :-)