From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57526 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Simon Josefsson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wizards! I mean, Assistants! Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:56:02 +0200 (CEST) Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <33505.130.237.226.19.1084960562.squirrel@130.237.226.19> References: <87pt94xpbv.fsf@telia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084960646 8110 80.91.224.253 (19 May 2004 09:57:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 09:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6066@lists.math.uh.edu Wed May 19 11:57:16 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQNp5-0004zH-00 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 11:57:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQNoB-0008Il-00; Wed, 19 May 2004 04:56:19 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQNo3-0008If-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 May 2004 04:56:11 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BQNo1-0002rI-M9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 May 2004 04:56:09 -0500 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497AC3A004D for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 04:56:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4J9u3DM013713 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 19 May 2004 11:56:03 +0200 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.11/8.12.1/Submit) id i4J9u2hX013712; Wed, 19 May 2004 11:56:02 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: yxa.extundo.com: apache set sender to jas@extundo.com using -f Original-Received: from 130.237.226.19 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jas); by yxa.extundo.com with HTTP; Wed, 19 May 2004 11:56:02 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87pt94xpbv.fsf@telia.com> Original-To: "Henrik Enberg" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 [CVS] X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57526 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57526 > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> Another idea is to spin something off the swedish word (but surely >> also part of most scandinavian languages) "(hus-)tomte" which are >> small creatures that help people do things, like milk a cow and other >> everyday matters. I don't know an english word for it, though. > > I believe house-gnome is the most common translation. I don't think > that would work that well though, it's somewhat taken in software > circles. Ah, of course, silly me. I do agree with someone who said that introducing a new term for this is confusing. OTOH, existing Wizards in Windows are often quite unwizardlike, so I'm not sure mimicking them too closely is what users would appreciate. I guess I'm hoping the Gnus Wizard would be radically different, and better, to justify a new term.