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one of my new favorite terrible linux application names: `yakuake`

guess what it does. go ahead, just guess. it's a console that pulls down from the top of the screen.
why the hell is it named that it's yet another kuake. kuake is a Quake-style console for KDE.
what's KDE the K Desktop Environment, one of the two main competing graphical desktops for Linux. the K mostly has to be in the name so you know whether it'll be integrated with one half of your GUI applications or the other half.
okay what does the K stand for Kool. a German college student named it that 26 years ago and then realized how unkool it was so now it officially doesn't stand for anything.
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guake got the name right on the first try whats wrong with the KDE folks?

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@micolithe's post made me investigate this and it turns out that there's actually no kuake, guake is its namesake and yakuake is just "Yet Another KDE guake", which I'm not sure whether that's better or worse

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nitro
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lmaooo yup, been using yakuake for years since it came bundled with a distro I drove half a decade ago. I was confused by its name and looked it up and fell into this rabbithole and a half of weird app names

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hindsightee
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also to note: it doesn't stand for "K Desktop environment" anymore! around 2015, when they spun out KDE Frameworks, KDE Apps and KDE Plasma into separate releases, they dropped the idea that letters mean things.

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modulusshift
@modulusshift

Ohhh I get it, it’s like a cheat terminal in a video game, only one keypress away, and apparently that reminds older people of Quake.

And yeah the “yet another” acronym thing has been way overdone at this point. It came back around from “haha programmers can’t name things” to “oh god programmers still can’t name things”

Yuckwake indeed

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vogon
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yeah it's a very useful use-case for someone who uses terminals like me (dropping to a terminal only when I can't do something from a GUI or it's a royal pain in the ass), and I have zero complaints about yakuake as a piece of software

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