From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57353 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wizards! I mean, Assistants! Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 17:24:03 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen 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 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084721095 12665 80.91.224.253 (16 May 2004 15:24:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 15:24:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5893@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 16 17:24:49 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 1BPNVR-0005z7-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 17:24:49 +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 1BPNVI-0003Br-00; Sun, 16 May 2004 10:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BPNVD-0003Bi-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 16 May 2004 10:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BPNVD-0004lt-EF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 16 May 2004 10:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1233A003B for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 10:24:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPNVC-0000JY-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 17:24:34 +0200 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org ([80.91.231.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 17:24:34 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 17:24:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Cabaret Voltaire's _The Conversation (1)_: "Harmonic Parallel" Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEVXNH0EAwOsh74GBQYU DRs3IlHULM7uAAACN0lEQVR4nG2TS47bMAyGCdfaV1AOYBjtPiqVvWdE7YUxef+r9KfkNBOghJHY +sQ3SZX/I3/2neojkJlqa+c7EPy3Jk0Ev7VJ8YM7AHPmRsHELJg+rIUz808ics0SqIfDTNTUjibn zTpxEenNDnnKB+ecxOBDaqlto9A3W5Z93wyBdiIwtfVrfwkhREKotAULEywTmMdPtMMKLS+FhWgj UvIbht9981Mckd+iSjApjVwR50GQjmuHShSE+7joN4J0g79NKwXN3Hc/D1w6HAdoBM4oxscAqIcg X7zgqTHi7eRjHxa5zdzbmmOC09WBKT6OM0L4ESKAqxyklb1wuBojmpNFHKxFcPCgZRiPTdVrZT1U Tvg+RmR4uY8CkogyR5CvDdfWGG8emnYPJ3PkGD9/oTV1gG0CHU2seBAMnCHNYKPCiQ/qq7PEAKl4 MoQGpvKFDD1zxB2nMIYBFz9nh+BePY5/gD+vJqlWgOHoHVTPPN7Us3oDH8PM/XdO/R0MhXRsGDVE xRNsiHyChuwWKvbSoAnu5B0VdKJcYHOQos86hrroS6OgU4+KOfTMuVW0cEpHdY8TbnMiNBJj0ycI WpPkFGGSUEBtcgGdGboQmruKXLbO0bOUsSGj500vYBi/nJBYvPlQuxO66otWYyljGhpIsTQf92WM +1xrathJ5C6+FWNLMAkDXCsvfS6Gg/U7wIpglsiHo59vwJ6i4qafoMi386EygXgLRoA4l+XHEzQ3 P3qFLSnLDu/lL/pjvWGtKvdWAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xNHfnrDTUoSiTFrBfBnZd/fgCtQ= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57353 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57353 Simon Josefsson writes: > I think "saints" was proposed last time, but I don't recall if people > liked it. It has kinda religious connotations... > 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. "Troll". :-) Or leprechaun. > 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. Good question. Anybody know? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen