On Sat, 2015-09-12 at 19:56 +0200, Xen wrote:

> ==============================
> 
> Seriously I would suggest to get rid of the CamelCase name. It breaks
> compatibility or congruency with a lot of other things and as a user
> you 
> are constantly wondering what the name is going to be.
> NetworkManager? 
> networkmanager? network-manager? It changes from situation to
> situation. 
> There is no reason for NetworkManager to be capitalized (least of all
> the binary) because this is no user-friendly system where NM sits
> inside 
> some sort of pretty application catalogue. Linux packages are always 
> lowercased. Most Linux directories are lowercased (and they should
> be). 
> You have to follow convention. This only creates problems. This is
> not 
> Microsoft Windows where each program sits in C:\Programs or
> C:\Program 
> Files and where filenames are CASE INSENSITIVE. Even the KDE
> convention 
> to name the "Documents" and "Pictures" folders with upper cases
> creates 
> issue because of the case sensitivity, which means that "cd
> documents" 
> won't work. If you want this in Linux, you have to ensure that the 
> actual names are lower case, but that you create a representation in
> the 
> GUI (!!!) that is capitalized. I know other packages do this as well,
> notably PackageKit and UPower, but it is bad habit and bad choice and
> makes it harder for everyone, because most of what you do in Linux is
> still done using the COMMAND LINE.


well... I don't like it either, but changing it now is painful too.

Thomas

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