For awhile now whenever a person wrote about DBus it was always up in the air how to spell it. Was it D-BUS, D-Bus, DBus, DBUS, d-bus or dbus? The original correct spelling as conceived by “oh my God it’s” Havoc Pennington, was D-BUS. Here is what he had to say when we caught up with the ever elusive Pennington:
The name D-BUS was essentially a joke; I seem to recall a lot of stupid puns being exchanged on IRC. (e.g., you will notice we still have dbus/bus/driver.c…) Putting it in all caps made it more amusing perhaps.
The devs finally got together to put this burning question to rest. How do you spell d-bus? The overriding majority answered, “I really don’t care” and so after little thought on the subject it is time to announce that dbus will officialy be written as:
D-Bus
So it is, so it shall be written. [read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]
The project will be forever mispelled as:
dbus
DBus
D-bus
This is the price you pay for unusual capitalisation and the use of a hyphen. You probably should have picked Dbus to avoid inconsistencies in the media and general public as well as simplifying the task for search engines.
See the Nokia N-Gage for an equivalent misadventure in product naming.
Comment by Max Howell — July 18, 2006 @ 6:13 am
NOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOO!
Not this variant!
Of course it should be “Dee Bus”.
Comment by anonymous — July 18, 2006 @ 7:58 am