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in search of a name

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:17 pm
by Badger
I thought that GLCD is quite a generic name for the library (indeed there are many similarly named projects out there). So in IRC we were trying to come up with some better names, and mabl got the ball rolling with a stupid acronym:
12:37 < mabl00> SAGCLCDlib (super awesome generic Chibios LCD library)


I used the Acronym Creator website to generate some ideas. I liked:

  • LARD - LCD Abstracted Render Driver (or ChibiLARD)
  • ChLORIDE - Chibios (or Chloride for some recursive-acronym goodness) Lcd Optical Render Interface Driver Extension
  • DISGRACE - DISplay GRAphical Chibios Extension

anyway, discuss :mrgreen:

Re: in search of a name

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:23 pm
by Tectu
I did think of name changing a long time ago but I never came up with a good one.

ChLORIDE - Chibios (or Chloride for some recursive-acronym goodness) Lcd Optical Render Interface Driver Extension

What does Chloride has to do with the rest of the "Lcd Optical Render Interface Driver Extension?

However, I vote for disgrace.


~ Tectu

Re: in search of a name

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:13 pm
by Badger
Tectu wrote:What does Chloride has to do with the rest of the "Lcd Optical Render Interface Driver Extension?


Nothing, it just makes it a recursive acronym (like WINE)

Re: in search of a name

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:45 pm
by Tectu
That definitley makes sense


~ Tectu

Re: in search of a name

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:31 pm
by barthess
Vote for ChibiLARD. Lard is important part of Russian cuisine (slightly less important than vodka).

Re: in search of a name

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:20 am
by benwilliam
I vote for DISGRACE

Re: in search of a name

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:20 am
by noether
ChLORIDE here!

Re: in search of a name

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:46 pm
by Giovanni
I would give it a name more in line with the parent project, for example ChibiOS/GFX (or any other suffix you like).

We already have ChibiOS/RT for Real Time, following the pattern a File System would be ChibiOS/FS a networking stack ChibiOS/TCP and so on. ChibiOS would be a generic name. I am considering making the HAL a separate effort under the name of ChibiOS/HAL.

"Chibi" is already plenty silly, no need to improve that :-)

Giovanni

Re: in search of a name

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:40 pm
by Tectu
What is your recommendation for the part behind the slash, Giovanni?
How do we put GLCD, Touchpad, GUI into one tag? ChibiOS/GTG?


~ Tectu

Re: in search of a name

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:49 pm
by Giovanni
Just an idea, you could make it simply "UI" since it is meant to include everything is interaction with an user. LARD would work too :-)

Giovanni