Hi chrysn, I did look up android intents when I picked the name. The other name I had in mind was "services" but that's a very different concept on Linux. It is to be expected though that an extremely similar concept would be named that way on a different platform. I do not think there would be confusion as: - Android does not have xdg-compliant apps - "Android intents" and "XDG intents" are two different-but-similar names for two different-but-similar concepts.
I am fully opened to suggestions for a different name anyway :) J. Leclanche On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:55 AM, chrysn <[email protected]> wrote: > hello jerome, > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:44:54PM +0000, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > > During the past couple of weeks, I've been working on a spec for intents > > (best name I could come up with). > > care should be taken when using that name in that context, as that very > name ("intents") is used on the android platform for a very similar > concept -- that could lead to confusion. > > i'm just an android user, but to give you an idea of what "intents" mean > there, an application could offer to > > android.intent.action.DIAL any url starting with tel: > > or an application that uses the address book would ask the os to > > android.intent.action.EDIT contact://contacts/people/1 > > it might even be worth looking into it in more detail, maybe it's > similar enough to be compatible. > > the android intents are documented on [1]. > > regards > chrysn > > [1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html > > -- > A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the > balances are correct. > -- Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > >
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