Names of the binaries

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Marijn Kruisselbrink
<m.kruisselbrink at student.tue.nl> wrote:
> 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.

Agreed as well.

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Mark Kretschmann
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