On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:50:15PM -0400, Ian Ward wrote:
Probably. What about just declaring the (german) pronounciation on the home page? ;)Why don't you keep "Urwid"? That name is unique (!) and doesn't look as noncreative as conui, consoleui or whatever. I like it. If I only had such good names for my own projects. :)I didn't think of that. Do you have another name in mind?It is unique, and maybe Urwid sounds better in German than English :-)
I believe that giving the project a more meaningful name will help people know at a glance if it might be of interest to them, and later remember the project name.I don't think conui or consoleui is much more descriptive. In my experience, most package names are either some kind of technical function description (like daemontools, pcb, gpsd) or a chosen name that doesn't directly (i.e. without reading the description) reflect the function (e.g. Apache, KDE, Firefox). Technical function names: Most often there are several similarly or even identically named projects that in the best case represent something completely different (daemon tools CD emulation [1]) and in the worst case it's a directly "competing" product (e.g. GPSd [2] - apperently down ATM - or NCSA httpd vs. CERN httpd [3]). Unique names: You need to read the description to gather what it does, but you'd need to do that anyway since even a technical function name doesn't give you enough details (console UI? for what application? Win32 or game console? etc.). Distinctive names are easier to remember, which might even help adoption. Often enough, I remember having seen some interesting library somewhere that I now would have a use for now, but don't find it anywhere because there are so much similarly named things that it's like finding a needle in a haystack. Just take a look at the Google results for "consoleui". Wouldn't find urwid anywhere in there. Instead, take a look at the 517 matches for "urwid". Apart from usual SPAM entries, every single one (well, at least those I checked :) ) actually is about this project!
[1] http://www.disc-soft.com/home [2] http://www.crs4.it:8000/gpsweb/14 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Httpd CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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