Re: icon-title-format vs. frame-title-format (Bug#61496)

[Óscar Fuentes]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>
>> What's wrong with saying "iconified or minimized"?
>
> Because ``minimization'' is a form of iconification.

Most users don't know this.

>> IIRC a few years ago there was on this list some acknowledgment of the
>> problems posed by using obsolete terminology in Emacs and some actions
>> were discussed to converge to modern wording up to some extent.
>
> ``minimize'' is not modern terminology.  It is simply terminology used
> by proprietary window systems.

KDE and AwesomeWM (just to mention the window managers I have installed
on this machine) are not proprietary. AFAIK Gnome also uses "minimize"
on its user-oriented documentation, so does Xfce and LXQt.