Names of the binaries

Jaroslaw Staniek staniek at kde.org
Sat Dec 18 18:18:59 GMT 2010


On 18 December 2010 16:59, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> 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.

I agree with the intention. Since you mentioned the tab completion,
name length does not matter that much, so I propose calligra prefix.
It's less geeky and more obvious.
BTW, I prefer to stay with kexi name though, it'll be still unique.

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