Re: Proliferation of IconKits?

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 21 août 04, à 17:27, Quentin Mathé a écrit :

> Le 20 août 04, à 21:24, M. Uli Kusterer a écrit :
>
> > Hi everybody, especially Quentin,
>
> Hi Uli,
>
> >  there are at least three frameworks for Cocoa/GNUstep out there 
> > called
> > IconKit. Would it be a good idea to rename the official GNUstep icon 
> > kit
> > Quentin is working on? My suggestions would be:

(...)

> Not sure, but I have done some search with Google and there are only 
> one programming framework called IconKit, the other stuff which more 
> or less includes the words "Icon" and "Kit" are not related to 
> development, precisely talking are not even called exactly IconKit.
> The previously quoted IconKit framework is OpenStep related (Deek told 
> me that first) and is no more in use, then I think it is ok to use 
> IconKit denomination for our project.
>
> Anyway if people really think we should rename this framework, may be 
> something like CoreIconKit or IconicKit could be ok.

A google search mostly returns the OpenStep IconKit, some classes in 
Java and some icons in flash...
(our IconKit is even already in 2nd position, and the first programming 
link..)
Frankly, a name change doesn't seem to be needed. I would say we 
continue with it.

But Uli, you cite three others IconKit for Cocoa, could you give us 
more informations ? If there is other kits than the old IconKit, we 
probably need to change.
Though IconKit is a very well-suited name :-D

thanks,

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Nicolas Roard
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