On 3/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > 2007/3/16, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > On 3/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Also I don't even know what > > > > Xdg stands for :-) > > > > > > I found this: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdg > > > > > > I am for the politically correct XdgSomething > > > > > > Ah, thanks, now I know that :-) > > > > I'm not sure if we need some kind of blessing to brand it as Xdg > > though... Is there are formal *group* behind the "g", or is it just a loose > > group of people with similar interests? > > > > > Ok, here's a round up: > > - Brassica : Already taken. > - Sinapis : Appears to be clean. Good because it is close to synapse > which is a connection, and bad because it is close to synaptic (the package > manager) > - Galanga : Appears clean. G could insinuate Gnome connection. Close to > Galago and Galaga which are both interely different software projects > - Karashi : Appears clean. Could indicate KDE relation. > - Pequin : Appears clean. Looks and sounds a bit odd. > - Aji : Appears clean. There's something about it I dislike > - XdgSearch: Totally clean (zero google hits). The "boring" but serious > name. We do more than searching in the strict sense though > - {Meta,Data}Sauce : Unlikely :-) > > And now my brand new suggestion: "ximas" - eXtensible Interface for > Metadata and Search services. Appears to be clean. It actually means > something and sounds more techy than spice-inspired names. I hope this is a > compromise of the suggestions so far. What do you think? > > Unless I get better proposals or good reasons not to use ximas I will > dictate this as the new name so that we can on with the show :-) > Ok, I really want to get past this asap. Having some quick conversations on IRC I've decided that we will use yet another name: "xesam" - eXtEnsible Search And Metadata specification Why? xesam has the dual meaning of "open sesame" too and there is only 452 google hits on that word (ximas has ~119.000). I know there is an rdf store called "sesame" but I think the danger for confusion is quite low. Wasabi is dead. Long live xesam. Cheers, Mikkel _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
Looking at "xesam," I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Is it "ZEE-sam" or "zeh-sum" or "zeh-SAM" or "ZEE-SAM"? It's tough to get my tongue around any of those pronunciations. What about "unisami" (pronounced "uni-sammy") for UNIfied Search And Metadata Interface. I would prefer dropping the 'I", but "UniSAM" is some smartcard thing (http://www.gemplus.com/products/unisam/). Luckily, "unisami" has all of two hits on Google. -- Scottie P.
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