On 24 Jun 2009, at 21:04, Jim Walker wrote:
> Brian Cameron wrote:
>> Also what about the jds-review at opensolaris.org mailing list. Should
>> we replace that with osd-review?
>
> BTW. If you do decide to change things away from jds, which I agree is
> a good idea, I would use desktop not osd (ie. desktop-review).
>
> The terse acronyms tend to confuse newcomers and don't
> translate well.
To add to the confusion, OSD is already, of course, a pretty well-
known acronym for something else ("on-screen display"), and one that
it's not uncommon to use in a computer desktop context. But nobody
seemed too concerned about that the last time I pointed it out :/
Cheeri,
Calum.
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