The name Xfce originally stood for “XForms Common Environment”, but since then Xfce has been rewritten twice and doesn’t use the XForms toolkit anymore. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as “XFCE” and is no longer an abbreviation for anything (wiki)
I agree that the Xf in Xfce ( originally XFCE ) stands for XForms ( or did originally ). You do not think that the X in XForms stands for X11 though?
XForms is a port of the Forms library ( originally a GL based SGI toolkit ) to X11. I do not know for sure but it seems pretty obvious that the X in XForms stands for X11.
Once we all move to Wayland, the Xfce name will carry quite a bit of history in its name. I kind of like that.
The X in XFCE doesn’t stand for X11.
The name Xfce originally stood for “XForms Common Environment”, but since then Xfce has been rewritten twice and doesn’t use the XForms toolkit anymore. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as “XFCE” and is no longer an abbreviation for anything (wiki)
I agree that the Xf in Xfce ( originally XFCE ) stands for XForms ( or did originally ). You do not think that the X in XForms stands for X11 though?
XForms is a port of the Forms library ( originally a GL based SGI toolkit ) to X11. I do not know for sure but it seems pretty obvious that the X in XForms stands for X11.
Once we all move to Wayland, the Xfce name will carry quite a bit of history in its name. I kind of like that.