svn commit: r377493 - head/x11/wbar

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:29:26AM +0100, Nicola Vitale wrote:
> > [2015-01-20 9:10 GMT+01:00 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>]
> > Since "etc." is abbreviation, it should be terminated with the dot (yes,
> > this contradicts usual practice of _not_ putting trailing dot in COMMENT,
> > but "etc." is special case; then again, it would be even better to make
> > COMMENT "etc."-less).
> 
> Good comment, thanks! I will opt for this solution:
> 
> COMMENT=    Quick launch bar for Fluxbox, Window Maker, Xfce, et cetera

IMHO that's worse, but than again, it could just be me.

> because I don't like to contradict the usual practice and I want to
> make happy my old professor of Latin. ;)

The usual practice refers to full stops after normal words; I don't think
using "etc." would be really a violation.

> P.S. Inter nos, I use wbar with twm, ergo etc. is not so useless. ;)

It certainly is, that's why I didn't suggest removing it completely.
Getting rid of it would just be convenient since we won't have to deal with
it anymore, not because it's bad per se.

./danfe