On 28 November 2012 18:35, Romain Pokrzywka <romain.pokrzy...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would have been a good idea to ask a native English speaker before > deciding on the name, as this is an atrocity, language-wise. I'm not a > native myself but I can tell this sounds wrong. 'Chose' is definitely not > the right verb here, you probably wanted 'select' instead? > > On top of that, IMO the *er suffix sounds really odd for a command tool. > Have you ever heard of commands named 'lister', 'deleter', or 'grepper' ? > > For these reasons I think other suggested names such as 'q[t]ver' or > 'q[t]select' are much more appropriate and sound more standard. (I don't > care much for q vs qt though)
I am a native speaker. While chooser is not such a common word, MacOS up through OS9 (and the mac-like OS on the IIgs) had a control panel called the Chooser, for selecting system-wide defaults such as printers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Chooser There is a joke that perl is an acronym for "pathological eclectic rubbish lister". And you can google for deleter and find some sort of software too. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
