GNOME's Sandboxing Tech "XDG-App" Now Renamed To "Flatpak"

[DDF420]

Flatpacks are those things from Ikea that make the furniture really easy to distribute, unpack, and install

Half the world says what the hell is Ikea, the other, Ikea flatpacks = FAIL. Cryptic instructions,missing pieces, and the total let down of such cheap crap furnishings.
Bloody ludicrous!!!!!!!!! Give the clowns an award for this time wasting name change

[plonoma]

Here is another one:
AppCanPack Can we pack it? Yes we can! Since it's based on latter part of FlatPack and it's about apps. Preserving their functionality in some sort of package or can if you will.

[ssokolow]

Not calling it X Desktop Group app kind of makes sense as there is no X support, only Wayland

XDG doesn't mean "X Desktop Group", it means "Cross-Desktop Group" because their whole reason for being is to produce things like D-Bus and the XDG Icon Naming Spec. (Anyone remember how KDE 3 and GNOME 2 couldn't share icon themes because they named them differently and you had to run two IPC buses because KDE apps used DCOP while GNOME apps used CORBA?)

Also, fun related tangent, the X in Xmas is also misunderstood. It's actually the greek letter Chi (pronounced kai, makes a K sound, looks like X) from Χριστός (Greek for "Christ") and has been used as an abbreviation by monks since the 1500s. (Another example of the Christian religion's passage through the Greek language is how Coptic and Eastern Orthodox Christian sects use the phrase Kýrie, eléison (Κύριε, ἐλέησον, greek for "God, forgive me") or phrases derived from it heavily in their prayers.)

...and one more because it seems a waste not to share it now that it came to mind. "TeX" is actually "Tau Epsilon Chi" and "LyX" ends with Chi, so you're supposed to pronounce them "Tek", "Laytek", and "Lick"... though, in those cases, I'm part of the big "Yeah, whatever, professor hipster-precursor. Just because you claim a symbol has a non-default meaning doesn't mean the world has to listen." crowd. (Similar to how Robert Louis Stephenson said Dr. Jekyl's name is supposed to be pronounced "Jee-kul" rather than "Jeh-kul", but nobody outside academia other than the Angry Video Game Nerd knows that because it runs counter to our phonetic intuition.

[liam]

Clearly everyone missed the obvious one:

Appy McAppFace

[Nille]

libreApp, librepak because libre make everything better.

[Jahkeipu]

"TeX" is actually "Tau Epsilon Chi" and "LyX" ends with Chi, so you're supposed to pronounce them "Tek", "Laytek", and "Lick"...

Not really. According to Knuth, TeX is pronounced /'ˈtɛx/. And LyX doesn't seem to have an agreed upon pronounciation: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation#lyx

[Bernal]

libreApp, librepak because libre make everything better.

What about lpak?
Linux Package, download Firefox lpak, extension .lpk

[niber]

ShoePack

[hrkristian]

I agree on the "IT SHOULDN'T FUCKING BE A WORD AND ALL HIPSTERS THAT AGREE SHOULD BE HARASSED HARD WHEN THEY ARE TRYING TO SLEEP" part, but whatever can be a word.

If enough people start giving a meaning to "sdfgas" (random letters) it becomes a word.

sdfgas is the kind of thing I expect people to talk about after WW3 as the most grotesque use of violence committed. Thanks for that.

[kobblestown]

AppYerPak FTW!