You mean, there is no omnisearch yet? Well I guess GIMP hackers are more accustomed to emacs and Vim than say, Brainjet IDEs, but by now I would expect that kin

You mean, there is no omnisearch yet? Well I guess GIMP hackers are more accustomed to emacs and Vim than say, Brainjet IDEs, but by now I would expect that kind of quick access to be in any software which have that many tools on its belt. Also, yes, definitely users shouldn't be bothered with in your face nomenclature which is irrelevant to the action. This is nothing specific to software engineering though, compare abelian algebra and commutative algebra, cubism and orphism, etc. Naming things after the most pondering phenomenal trait of what's designated is often in competition with many other perspectives.