[BRLTTY] brltty, orca and gdm not playing nicely

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by timothyhobbs at seznam.cz on 2014/05/25 at 23:37 +0200]

>Well that's a step back in naming clarity ;) 

It's just kind of a new standard that's come into existence lately. A check of 
the brltty source will reveal that we already (as of 5.1) support the 
XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS environment variables.

>I presume that XDG_VTNR means something in Hebrew, given the utter lack of 
>vowels.

Please, let's try and not be mean. And, besides, Hebrew has vowel points. The 
fact is that we can usually point at ourselves if we're looking for fault. In 
this case, the true inventors of vowelless spelling were early computer 
programmers who'd do anything at all to avoid typing more than absolutely 
necessary, even if it completely obfuscated all of their code.

XDG means X Desktop Group. VTNR means Virtual Terminal Number.

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