Names of the binaries

Marijn Kruisselbrink m.kruisselbrink at student.tue.nl
Sat Dec 18 19:07:23 GMT 2010


On Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:18:59 am Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, fully agree with this.

Marijn



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