Re: A text every GNOME programmer should read.

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

I think he says "Guh-nome"

Shlomi Fish wrote:

> On 22 May 2001, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hey guys,
> >
> >    If you are a programmer, I would like to encourage you to read the
> > following article.  It is called `UI Design for Programmers':
> >
> >        http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$51
> >
> >    One of the best pieces of text I have read.
> >
>
> Well, it's quite long, but I scanned through it and it should make a very
> good read. However, GNOME does not comply to everything Joel says there.
> For instance, I always found the lack of keyboard functionality in
> Gtk+/GNOME frustrating and he talks extensively about proper keyboard
> integration.
>
> I have yet to find a GNOME dialog which I can operate without a mouse, and
> Nautilus does not seem to have one keyboard binding present "for the sake
> of medicine". In KDE, the situation is much better and I think GNOME
> should follow suit.
>
> Regards,
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
> BTW, do we have a SillySounds directory where Miguel de Icaza says "Hi! My
> name is Miguel de Icaza and I pronounce GNOME as GNOME."? (In English
> and Spanish) There are any number of ways to pronounce GNOME:
>
> 1. Nome (that's how I pronounce it because it is the proper English
> pronouncation of the word "gnome".)
> 2. gg-nome (the common Israeli paradigm for pronouncing it)
> 3. Gah-nome (I read somewhere that it should be pronounced that way)
> 4. Jee-nome (Ditto)
>
> So it will be intersting to know how GNOME's project head pronounces it.
>
> > Best wishes,
> > Miguel.
> >
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