Vaida Plankytė writes: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 3:50 AM Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> >> On 8/5/26 07:23, Vaida Plankytė wrote: >> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 12:04 PM Alyssa Ross wrote: >> >> >> >> * configuration? instance? I wish we had a better name for these things, >> >> even if it's agreed that it's not necessarily what we end up calling >> >> it to users. >> > >> > Agreed. I'm almost keen to just use "VM" internally because it's so >> > much shorter to write, and explanations often end up mentioning the >> > term as well as "persistent"/"non-persistent" several times a line, so >> > it's a big space/cognitive saver. But maybe that says something about >> > how user-facing terms, that'll appear in docs in potentially equally >> > extensive explanations, should also be short and snappy. "Base app", >> > "saved app" and "one-off app" or something. >> >> Qubes OS uses "Disposable VM". What about "Disposable app"? > > Disposable is a good word, as people are familiar with what it means > from general life contexts. I quite like "app" too! > > Is "window" an option, or would it conflict with how people would use > applications in Spectrum? If you choose to open a new window from an > app's menubar, does it live in the same instance or not? I feel it'd > be more natural for people to think of "app" to denote the actual > application, and "window" to denote an instance/VM, as they're likely > to be familiar with that terminology, but I can also see how that > could get confusing if "generic window" and "Spectrum window" terms > don't align. Unfortunately that generally opens a new window in the same instance, and that's not something we can change, because we'd have to change how every app works. I definitely wouldn't want to overload "window" to mean two different things!