Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:50:15PM -0400, Ian Ward wrote: > >>>> I didn't think of that. Do you have another name in mind? >>> 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. :) >> It is unique, and maybe Urwid sounds better in German than English :-) > Probably. What about just declaring the (german) pronounciation on the > home page? ;)
Yes, I could do that. And I like the "ancestral widget" meaning Rebecca mentioned. >> 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! Your arguments are good, and more than a few people like the current name. Also, changing the name is a long and boring process with lots of other drawbacks. So I will save "conui" for the eventual C port of Urwid (just because someone uses a lesser language doesn't mean they should be stuck without a good console UI library) Ian -- oor-wid mailing list _______________________________________________ Urwid mailing list [email protected] http://lists.excess.org/mailman/listinfo/urwid
