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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