Hi! I really like the idea of application role names. That makes a lot of sense to me. But I also agree with David that the names of many applications aren't particularly clear. I think while application role names are certainly a very good way to help users find what they want, we shouldn't give such a bad example.
Naming Grr and DictionaryReader, I had the problem that both the names "RSS Reader" and "Dictionary" were already taken by others. I tried to avoid the word "News" in Grr, as it can be misinterpreted to be Usenet- type news. After all, I ended up using "Grr", because it went nicely with the "dog fetching the newspaper" metaphor. Looking at the naming conventions in other environments, it seems to me that the dilemma is usually solved by adding a environment-typical prefix like the "K" in KDE, the "G" in GNOME or the "i" for iLife products. Maybe we should go for that approach. I don't particulary like to rename Grr, because it has a Debian package and that will cause all kinds of trouble for people who dragged it into their WM dock. (When the development version Grrr becomes stable, I'll rename it to Grr as well.) But I definitely think that finding a proper application naming convention would be a good idea for the creation of future applications. -Guenther _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
