On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Chris Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Correct. > 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. > +1. Any thoughts on the icon? :-) > 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 -- Anish | [email protected] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
