Thanks, Chad.
I was not aware of the other Chromium program. Note that for commands
in /usr/bin, the '/usr/bin' part is not necessary either to run program
in terminal or as a .desktop launcher command (e.g. chrome-browser or
chrome-browser http//www...)
That being said, I still think the issue needs addressing because
Chromium-Browser (!!) is a core/important application, not an incidental
one.
There 2 possible solutions:
1) To change the title bar to say: "website... - Chromium-Browser" instead of
"website... - Chromium"
This would tell people the actual command... but would be ackward.
2) Rename Chromium-Browser to Chromel... as in Chrome Linux.
Of course, renaming the app would cause a bit of trouble initially but
correcting the problem is better than correcting it, especially that
Chromium is an important app and that the recent and future success of
Linux is very closely linked to the user-friendliness of the system. It
is all those snags and inconsistencies, and things that do not work--
that regular users would not know how to fix--that really put people
off.
Thanks.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1250143
Title:
Program command "chromium-browser" is problematic
Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
This is more an issue than a bug but I do not know how else to bring
this up to your attention.
The use of CHROMIUM-BROWSER (as opposed to CHROMIUM) as command for
Chromium is not intuitive and problematic for many users, for example
to create launchers or fix window position in Openbox, or create
keyboard shortcuts, etc.
1) It does not follow standards. The command for all other programs is
usually the program's name.
2) It cannot be guessed.
3) The -browser is not needed and does not serve any purpose.
4) It is un-userfriendly.
A constant complaint about Linux is that it is not user-friendly.
Changing the command to CHROMIUM only would make it more intuitive and
easily all the issues above... the issues created by the
unconventional naming of this program. It is going to be one less
frustration for users.
Thanks.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: chromium-browser 29.0.1547.65-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 11 11:14:45 2013
Desktop-Session:
DESKTOP_SESSION = Lubuntu
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS =
/etc/xdg/lubuntu:/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg/xdg-Quelitu-Lxde:/etc/xdg
XDG_DATA_DIRS =
/etc/xdg/lubuntu:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/usr/share/gdm:/var/lib/menu-xdg:/etc/xdg/xdg-Quelitu-Lxde:/etc/xdg
DiskUsage:
b'Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/sda5
ext4 14G 9.3G 3.5G 73% /\nnone tmpfs 4.0K 0 4.0K
0% /sys/fs/cgroup\nudev devtmpfs 489M 4.0K 489M 1% /dev\ntmpfs
tmpfs 100M 1.1M 99M 2% /run\nnone tmpfs 5.0M
0 5.0M 0% /run/lock\nnone tmpfs 498M 1.2M 496M 1%
/run/shm\nnone tmpfs 100M 4.0K 100M 1% /run/user\n/dev/sda3
ext4 3.7G 3.3G 199M 95% /media/on\n'
Inodes:
b'Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on\n/dev/sda5 880K
397K 484K 46% /\nnone 125K 2 125K 1%
/sys/fs/cgroup\nudev 123K 552 122K 1% /dev\ntmpfs
125K 518 124K 1% /run\nnone 125K 3 125K 1%
/run/lock\nnone 125K 3 125K 1% /run/shm\nnone
125K 8 125K 1% /run/user\n/dev/sda3 245K 22K 223K 9%
/media/on\n'
Env:
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-15 (726 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-19 (22 days ago)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec =
b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser
%s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled =
b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-browser
%s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled =
b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager =
b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager =
b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme =
b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'
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