Applications rename

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 15 December 2010 09:48, Cyrille Berger Skott <cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 December 2010, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> On Wednesday 15 December 2010, Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 21:01:20 Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
>> > > On Sunday 05 December 2010, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > >
>> > > > I know that you might be anxious to rename applications in git, asap.
>> > > > But I would want to have a synchronize effort, especially with
>> > > > respect to translations. So I will ask you to resist the urge for
>> > > > now :) Or at least, don't change the name of the po files.
>> > >
>> > > calligra/master translation are setup now (as you may have noticed the
>> > > disturbance :) ). So we can start finishing with the renaming. I had
>> > > like to suggest that you do rename the top directory once you are
>> > > certain everything has been renamed.
>> >
>> > Should the rename be done by the maintainers of the applications?
>> >
>> > Should we use special names for libs like adding a cs to the start of the
>> > name so libkpresenterprivate would become libscstageprivate? This would
>> > be done to not get conflics.
>>
>> I think it's not worth the effort to rename all libraries, all plugins and
>> so on -- whatever Thomas fork of KOffice will be called and Calligra
>> aren't co-installable, and I don't have a problem with that. App names are
>> different, because those are user-visible.
> Yes only rename the binary, kpart and user configuration file. And user
> visible string in the application.
>
> Also, we should have symlinks (except for words, I guess)
>
> Something like:
>
> if(CMAKE_HOST_UNIX)
>    install(CODE "
>    EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ln -sf stage kpresenter
>       WORKING_DIRECTORY ${BIN_INSTALL_DIR}
>       )
>    ")
> endif(CMAKE_HOST_UNIX)
>
> And desktop files should countains the mention of the old application name, so
> that typing "kpresenter" in the start menu shows stage.

I think it's also a good hint for putting in README.PACKAGERS, so they
will include the k* links in the packages.

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