Anish, As I recall, this activity was already renamed once from xoscope after it became clear it was colliding in name space with an oscilloscpe activity.
http://git.sugarlabs.org/xoscope I would suggest that in accordance with the Sugar HIG guidance http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/Activities#Activities_as_Verbs that a word in verb form be employed as the activity name. As an example, "Magnify" could apply equally to a telescope or a microscope and it is a verb, not a noun. When a decision is made, we will need to work this out in order to preserve the work done in Pootle and to re-establish the git-Pootle linkage. This time around, I would like to insist that the code be migrated to a repo with a matching name. Having the xoscope git repo connected to the telescope.pot has always had potential for confusion and this time I want the change done properly. There are a few other examples of git/Pootle naming mismatch (e.g. oficina/paint, etc.) but it has not been worth the effort to revisit these others so far. cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Anish Mangal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have received requests that the Telescope activity [1] be renamed to > Scope, since, off late it has been used in conjunction with not just a > monocular, but small microscope attachments (the kind which were > distributed at the SF summit). In that light, the name Telescope is no > longer widely applicable to the set of applications it is used for. > > I could see Telescope and Microscope as two different activities in > the future with different features. For eg, in the Telescope activity > you could have: > > 1. Dark Frame Subtraction > 2. High-Gain Noise Suppression > 3. Enabling the camera's night-mode. > 4. Crosshairs on the screen > > Right now, none of this exists, and I don't have the bandwidth to > develop those features. So, until that happens, I support renaming the > activity to Scope. > > Thoughts? > > [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4481 > > -- > Anish | [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
