Article:		Pro User's Perspective on the New iMac (and Other Apple Revelations)
Subject:		OroborOSX and minimise-to-dock
Date:		2002-01-16 10:50:10
From:		adrianu1
Response to: OroborOSX and minimise-to-dock
BTW, I'm curious to know... Did Rosenthal ever say the word "OroborOSX"? How did he pronounce it? I've never yet had any need to say "OroborOSX", and I've little idea how to...! (orobor oh ess ten? oroboros-ex? oroboros ten?) ;-) Adrian

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• OroborOSX and minimise-to-dock
  2002-01-16 16:04:58  Chris Stone | [View]
  
  
  I think he used "oroboros ten" (or was it oroboros ex?).
  
  Anyway, now's a good time time to set it in stone...so how would you like the name of your creation pronounced?
  
  (you heard it here first , folks! :-)
• OroborOSX pronunciation
  2002-01-17 06:54:07  adrianu1 [View]
  
  
  Ummm... errrr....
  
  Well, it's something I've spent quite a while thinking about...
  
  The problem is, I don't actually much like the name. I originally made it up because it started off as a slight modification to the Oroborus window manager, by Ken Lynch (see OroborOSX v0.1 -a standard, 'unix-based' window manager), but designed to look a bit better with OS X.
  
  Then I figured out how to do some neat integration by turning it into a Carbon app...
  
  What I really want is to change the name -make it more evocative of a "Complete Environment for Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X" (CERXAMOSX!).
  
  Any suggestions would be most welcome...
  (Maybe I should run a competition ;-)
  
  Thanks!
  
  Adrian
  
• OroborOSX pronunciation
  2003-10-19 06:22:56  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Ummm... errrr....
• OroborOSX pronunciation
  2002-03-17 01:44:26  jasonaaronwilson [View]
  
  
  Luckily someone pointed out oroborosX to me because I was about to start writing my own simple window manager.
  
  Anyways, the name I was going to use was Akwa (pronounced like Aqua) though maybe something like AkwaX would be better.