Names of the binaries

Marijn Kruisselbrink m.kruisselbrink at student.tue.nl
Sat Dec 18 16:07:07 GMT 2010


On Saturday, December 18, 2010 07:59:58 am Inge Wallin wrote:
> I think it would be a good idea to prefix our binaries with cs.  Examples
> would be cswords, cstables and so on. OOo does this with binaries like
> oowriter, oocalc, etc.  I *think* Libreoffice does the same but I'm not
> sure.
> 
> Reasons:
> 
>  - It follows the pattern
> 
>  - It helps the memory
> 
>  - It will be easier to find them for people that don't know all the names.
>    cs<tab> will quickly give all the alternatives
> 
>  - The prefix is more unique.  For example, for tables, ta<tab> gives:
> tabs     tac      tail     tailf    talk     tar      taskset
>    t<tab> gives 112 alternatives
> 
>  - It feels good :-)
>    Yeah, this is very subjective, of course.
Even more than that, I think it is ridiculous to call our apps just "Tables" 
or "Words", so I'd suggest for user facing strings to always prefix the names 
with Calligra, so we'd have "Calligra Tables", "Calligra Words" etc (at least 
I'd feel ridiculous calling my app "Tables")

Marijn



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