From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57351 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wizards! I mean, Assistants! Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 15:20:51 +0000 (UTC) Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084720879 12237 80.91.224.253 (16 May 2004 15:21:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 15:21:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5891@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 16 17:21:14 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 1BPNRy-0005oC-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 17:21:14 +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 1BPNRs-00033f-00; Sun, 16 May 2004 10:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BPNRl-00033Z-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 16 May 2004 10:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BPNRi-0004jF-JY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 16 May 2004 10:20:58 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3DDB3A004B for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 10:20:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPNRh-0000EN-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 17:20:57 +0200 Original-Received: from spel21.nada.kth.se ([130.237.227.180]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 17:20:56 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by spel21.nada.kth.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 17:20:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 130.237.227.180 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57351 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57351 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen gnus.org> writes: > (I don't really like that word, though. "Assistant"?) I think "saints" was proposed last time, but I don't recall if people liked it. 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. Except for the obvious "santa claus" (which probably has too many other connotations to be useful), my dictionary only propose "brownie". Do people associate "brownie" with anything but cookies? But, surely a specification-language for this must exist? How do you write a wizard under Windows, or GTK? I really hope people aren't designing those widget by widget. Of course, it would be nice if it was generic, so other Emacs packages can use it. Err. Only diversion and no code from me, sorry.