this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
741 points (98.2% liked)

linuxmemes

20757 readers
793 users here now

I use Arch btw


Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

True. The name does feel out of place tho

[–] Telodzrum 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Only until you scroll down to the 'K' section of the "All Applications" tab and suddenly everything makes a lot of frustrating sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean "scroll down to K"?

[–] Telodzrum 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The group "kde-applications" has over 100 entries that start with the letter 'k'.

[–] takeheart 13 points 5 months ago

Funny. Your observation made me think that for the purpose of finding stuff it's most efficient to have a perfectly linear distribution across all letters. Ie if there is 26 letters and I type out a single one I'm precluding 25/26 applications.

Of course the application menu uses fuzzy search meaning it looks at the whole string not just the beginning and also crawls through meta data and tags.

Still for searching it seems most efficient if a language uses all letters evenly 🤔.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Kinda kinky, keeping kowtow kicking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Yes. Such ordered. Much K.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know, the naming scheme is fairly obvious, but it's the only regular program with a german name (that I know of)

[–] Telodzrum 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I didn't even know it's German. Was that deliberate or a happy coincidence because it's a hard 'c' in English and they seem to turn all words that start with a hard 'c' into apps that start with a 'k'?

[–] ricdeh 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's probably more of the latter, but KDE's roots were in Germany!

[–] Telodzrum 2 points 5 months ago

Man, I probably should have known that. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

KDE e.V. is still in Germany

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Telodzrum 2 points 5 months ago

you win the thread

[–] TheFrogThatFlies 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do note that the default non-X terminal is called console: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_console