Reboot/Restart Jargon
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 18:00:26 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 23:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> It seems that we are using reboot/restart inconsistently in the
> interface. GDM has a restart button with provides a message on
> "reboot"ing the system. Pirut, GNOME and KDE menus mention restart and
> reboot in a seemingly random fashion. Also without using KDM, KDE
> wouldnt provide a restart and shutdown option.
Surely reboot is the technical term, and restart is the action?
I would have thought we should be using "restart" throughout the distro.
Richard.
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