Is it D-Bus, DBus, D-BUS or dbus?

Timo Hoenig thoenig at suse.de
Tue Jul 18 01:44:36 PDT 2006


Hi,

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 20:16 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 09:06 +0900, Evan Martin wrote:
> > On 7/14/06, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Personally I prefer D-Bus since it highlights the important bits.
> > > However all the documentation we have and most of the wiki uses D-BUS
> > > which is a bit bold but there you have it.  Some of the newer stuff uses
> > > DBus but I feel this is wrong (looks like a typo of Bus).
> > >
> > > Being of the less work is more fun camp I propose we stick with D-BUS.
> > > It is not the most visually appealing but it does have precedence and
> > > I'm not going to be the one who goes through the docs and wiki to change
> > > all the instances.
> > 
> > So is it going to be D-Bus, then?  I just noticed the wiki changed...
> 
> Yep.

Why?

This thread shows a trend towards using D-BUS rather than D-Bus to me.

If you crawl the web, look at package descriptions and mail archives you
can see a broad usage of the term D-BUS.  Dropping D-BUS in favor of
D-Bus causes unnecessary confusion and mix up in my opinion.

   Timo




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