Re: One small thing about application names.... :)

[oberhage]

Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:

: Gregory Casamento writes:
:> All,
:> 
:> I would like to suggest one small thing to the community.   Could
:> we, as a group, possibly avoid application names which begin with a
:> gratuitous "G" or "GS"?  Although I am VERY excited to see all of
:> the new GNUstep applications being announced, I'm a little
:> disappointed at the names which are usually of the form:
:> 
:> G*.app or
:> GS*.app
:> [...]

: But, for  the same reason, user applications  should avoid gratuituous
: GS* names,  since they're  actually OpenStep applications  rather than
: specifically  GNUstep applications,  in general.

On the other hand I would really like to have a distinguishing part
in the name to be able to tell the difference to a 'mere' X11-application
or such. See how good the 'Terminal'-Application is burried in the Debian
package tree. When you don't know it's there ...
Something to 'browse' for in a tree would be very nice.

Should all these applications maybe end in '.app' (e.g. Terminal.app)?
That would certainly be such a differentiating mark.

Thanks and greetings,
 Ruediger Oberhage
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