Naming does not have any relation with standardisation. What is the standard of being my name is Nasim and yours is Jewel or someone else's is Joe?
OS standards do exist and developers follow them. Windows has its own standards and Unix world has its own (called POSIX). That is why all Windows works the same even the cosmetics are different. Also Linux, BSD, Mac, Solaris, etc. works the same even cosmetics and some of the underlying techs vary. There is absolutely no need for having the same kind of name for similar type of software. It is better to have different and catchy names. When you suggest windows control panel should behave like linux system preference you are encouraging the memorisation. Literacy is not memorising. If you take a look at the existing desktop environments for Linux around you, you'll see gnome, kde, etc. do call their things differently. And that is what things should be. Having choices is the main goal of the open source movement. This is the exact reason you have thousands of Linux distro, hundreds of desktop environments, etc. You can hop around them and make a choice of yours. -- M. Nasimul Haque Senior Developer Appliansys Coventry, UK http://www.nasim.me.uk -- Ubuntu Bangladesh https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
