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  • gnuplot is not related to the GNU project or the FSF in any but the most peripheral sense. Our software was designed completely independently and the name “gnuplot” was actually a compromise. I wanted to call it “llamaplot” and Colin wanted to call it “nplot.” We agreed that “newplot” was acceptable but, we then discovered that there was an absolutely ghastly pascal program of that name that the Computer Science Dept. occasionally used. I decided that “gnuplot” would make a nice pun and after a fashion Colin agreed.

    http://gnuplot.info/faq/index.html#x1-70001.2

    So another punny name that was picked when it was assumed it didn’t matter since no-one would really use it.











  • This is quite interesting. I’d been looking into dbus lately and was confused by a few design choices so it makes sense to me that the design is faulty.

    Running both simultaneously seems pretty feasible since the session bus bus should be quite lightweight (worse case would be a lot of inter-bus traffic if/when that gets implemented).

    Security and kv are excellent features.

    I feel it might have more luck gaining adoption if its name did t tie it to hyprland.