On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:52:49AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Now "import" is quite another kettle of fish: it's part of the > ImageMagick suite (not much to do with X, actually), which has the > (questionable) tradition of calling its things "display", "convert", > "identify", "compare"... or even "conjure"). Now ImageMagick is so > useful that people seem to tolerate it, but a prefix (e.g. "im-") > or a super-command ("im") would be more modern, yes.
ImageMagick only gets away with it because of its age and ubiquity. It's grandfathered in.