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I was about to disagree, then I remembered how annoying I find switching between DEs and remembering the weird names they give the various utilities, especially when want to know the process name and the about window just says "File Manager".

I think it’s fine, not every name needs to describe some aspect of the underlying project.

You're overthinking it.

A holocron is a storage device.

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Would you be peeved by a programming language named after an unrelated BBC comedy series? [1]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-is-it-called-...

Rich Hickey has a section on using good words, on not using nicknames, in his (as ever wonderful) Clojure Conj 2023 talk Design in Practice,

https://youtu.be/c5QF2HjHLSE?t=6m20s