<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Preface</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Gaby's documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Gaby's documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Documentation layout" HREF="x35.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="PREFACE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Gaby's documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x35.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="PREFACE" ><H1 ><A NAME="PREFACE" ></A >Preface</H1 ><TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" CLASS="EPIGRAPH" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="45%" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="45%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><I ><P ><I >Some were great but most were terrifying - and so spooky too.</I ></P ></I ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="45%" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="45%" ALIGN="RIGHT" VALIGN="TOP" ><I ><SPAN CLASS="ATTRIBUTION" >dEUS</SPAN ></I ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN23" >1. No more bloody acronyms (aka "What does <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Gaby</SPAN > stand for ?")</A ></H1 ><P >The title says it all : <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Gaby</SPAN > is <SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >not</I ></SPAN > an acronym despite that it first stood for "GTK Address Book of Yesterday" (and after for "Gaby Astute Base of Yesterday"). In fact I liked the first one but had to change when Gaby evolved in something else than just an addressbook and I never really loved the new one.</P ><P >That said, what does <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Gaby</SPAN > stand for ? Well ... nothing. <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Gaby</SPAN > stands for nothing. Why would you want an answer to every questions ? <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Gaby</SPAN > doesn't stand for anything including references to friends (Gaby is a common nickname for Gabriel and Gabrielle in French), to an old cartoon featuring a teddy bear named Gaby, to the song 'Gaby oh Gaby' from Alain Bashung (French singer), to ... <A NAME="AEN33" HREF="#FTN.AEN33" ><SPAN CLASS="footnote" >[1]</SPAN ></A ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="FOOTNOTES" >Notes</H3 ><TABLE BORDER="0" CLASS="FOOTNOTES" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="5%" ><A NAME="FTN.AEN33" HREF="f18.html#AEN33" ><SPAN CLASS="footnote" >[1]</SPAN ></A ></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="95%" ><P >I gave the possible meanings people sent me, there are probably others</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x35.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Gaby's documentation</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Documentation layout</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
