>> 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.
How 'bout installing imagemagick executables into a /usr/bin/im/ subdirectory? This way, you can refer to it via `im/convert` but if you prefer to use the "grandfather" name, you can just add /usr/bin/im/ to your PATH. Stefan