Commandline tools

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 20:43, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 14 August 2006 23:20, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > - unless an indivual name is very descriptive (for example like
> > konsolekalendar) it should be prefixed with kde4, maybe having a second
> > name part according to the module, e.g. kde4-io-client (instead if
> > kfmclient), maybe using kde4-io-copy/move/trash as convenience shortcuts
>
> Note that it's called kioclient already, in trunk.

Ah, good

> Not sure the kde4 is useful there. If I want to download a file from a
> terminal, it doesn't matter which version of kde I'm using. We're not
> typing fileutils5-cp instead of cp, either :)

Ok, maybe the version number is a bit too much :)

However, the common prefix would be a bit like namespacing so KDE commandline 
tools can be easier discovered using a shell's commandline completion.

k<tab><tab> gives me about  250 hits, mostly KDE applications but including 
some non-KDE applications as well.

I discovered the usefulness of prefix-namespacing when working on the 
xdg-utils scripts and trying to figure out how to do certain things in GNOME.
gnome-open is easier to discover than kfmclient exec, their VFS tools are 
named gnome-vfs-$function

Since their documentation is as good/bad as ours (i.e. non-existant), 
consistent naming helps a lot.

As a developer I really appreciate the work you and the other library 
developers put into keeping our APIs clean and consistent.

From my point of view a commandline tool is also a kind of API and should be 
treated in a similar way, e.g. keeping the calling conventions compatible, 
have useful return values, etc, and descriptive naming.

Anyway, the kde- prefix is just a suggestion, even if adopted I'd rather have 
it as a recommendation than a policy

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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