[Kde-games-devel] ksnakeduel naming issues

[Michał Zając]

I laughed but then, in turn, I thought you might be getting annoyed at
repeated requests :D

I'll get to it really soon. Thanks!

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El Dissabte, 7 de febrer de 2015, a les 18:08:47, Michał Zając va escriure:
> > I'm not Jonathan's twin but we are both working on Kubuntu.
>
> Yeah that was a joke, i think it didn't come across as funny though i
> guess :D
>
> As Ian says, we decided to go away from ktron ages ago, please suggest a
> MR in
> reviewboard to do so, or convince Jonathan to reply on the one he did :)
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
> > I believe the source of the problem with the name is that Tron is a
> > trademark (hence the partial rename to ksnakeduel). What I'm pushing here
> > for is either finishing the rename to ksnakeduel or go back to ktron
> > instead of keeping it inconsistent. If the latter is chosen then we are
> > bound to run into copyright issues at some point.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > > El Dijous, 5 de febrer de 2015, a les 16:07:31, Michał Zając va
> escriure:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've been wondering if it would be possible to have the ksnakeduel
> name
> > > > sorted out.
> > > >
> > > > Current situation is:
> > > >  - source tarball is named ksnakeduel
> > > >  - binary is named ktron
> > > >  - there is a desktop entry for kdesnake
> > > >
> > > > This leads to current situation where the package in Debian is named
> > >
> > > ktron
> > >
> > > > and in Ubuntu we have ksnakeduel and ktron which is a dummy package
> to
> > >
> > > pull
> > >
> > > > ksnakeduel and we are wondering which one to keep. There are also
> > >
> > > trademark
> > >
> > > > problems.
> > > >
> > > > My proposed solution would be to:
> > > > a) rename anything ktron to ksnakeduel
> > > > *b) rename kdesnake to ksnake
> > > >
> > > > * this is optional but IMO it would make sense to have ksnake when
> you
> > >
> > > have
> > >
> > > > ksnakeduel
> > >
> > > Are you Jonathan Riddell's twin? He kind of proposed the same in
> > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121589/
> > >
> > > He failed to explain why we would want to have a ksnake and a
> ksnakeduel,
> > > seem
> > > too similar if they are exactly the same software.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > >   Albert
> > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Michał Zając
>
>
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