[linux-audio-user] Smack 0.3 Released.

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

tim hall wrote:

> Please don't take this as a massive flame or anything, it is merely intended 
> as feedback.

Please don't take this as massive flame, but this is nuts.

> I have not tried your application yet, largely I realise because 
> I find the name you have chosen for the project utterly repellant.

You're from the UK, so I guess english is your main language. From:

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=smack

Smack :

   - a blow from a flat object
   - the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
   - a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter)
   - street names for heroin [syn: big H, hell dust, nose drops, thunder]
   - an enthusiastic kiss [syn: smooch]
   - the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
   - deliver a hard blow to
   - have an element suggestive (of something)
   - have a distinctive or characteristic taste
   - kiss lightly
   - eat noisily by smacking one's lips

Yes, the heroin thing is there, but who cares. I think that using the
meaning "deliver a hard blow to" makes smack is a very appropriate name
for a drum synth.

> The word 
> has no positive connotations for me at all.

Really? Not even "deliver a hard blow to"?

Erik
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