rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 07:21:42 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 08:17 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:31 +0530, shirish wrote:
> > had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due
> > to trademark related names.
> 
> Non-technical users have absolutely no idea what "cruft" means.
> Wikipedia correctly says, "Cruft is computing jargon"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft
> 
> I was so used to the term and once used it in end user communication at
> the large company I work for. Nobody understood.

I thought cruft was used interchangeably with crud when talking about
real-life things.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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