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swsnr / turnon

Turn on devices in your local network
https://flathub.org/apps/details/de.swsnr.turnon
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Rephrase #7

Closed vanillajonathan closed 1 month ago

vanillajonathan commented 1 month ago

As per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN

vanillajonathan commented 1 month ago

Wikipedia names it Wake-on-LAN with dashes so I assume that is the proper way to write it.

swsnr commented 1 month ago

I don't think there's a "proper way to write it". Microsoft calls it "Wake On LAN" (e.g. here), and Wireshark writes WriteOnLAN :slightly_smiling_face:

The official name would be "Magic Packet" technology, at least, that's the name used in the original whitepaper from like 1995 or so, which doesn't even mention "wake on LAN" in any particular spelling :wink:

And as I find dashes in names ugly, I'd say "Wake On LAN" presents a reasonable compromise :wink: Would you mind to update this PR accordingly?

vanillajonathan commented 1 month ago

Okay.