[Kde-hardware-devel] Namespace name

[Kevin Ottens]

Le Mardi 4 Avril 2006 19:15, Michaël Larouche a écrit :
> No, Solid is a framework and a sets of applications like Plasma.

It really depends. I think that Kevin meant was that for Plasma you need to 
have the Plasma application to run, or you'll see nothing and third party 
applications won't be able to use it. It even makes more sense by the fact 
that it's GUI based.

For Solid, well we've choosen to provide some helper apps, but they could be 
completely done outside of the "Solid umbrella". There's only the kded 
modules that should be kept with the framework but it's invisible to the user 
anyway.

> But IMO, we should use Solid as namespace before I'm pretty sure that
> Marketing Group will use these projects names to promote KDE4.
>
> So a new app developer will first look for Solid and not KDEHW.

That's where I disagree (and hence why I'm still pondering for a change).

The Solid or Phonon names particularly matters to the users IMHO. It's a nice 
name to show that we're addressing a particular problem and that it'll 
(hopefully) shine in KDE 4.

On the developer point of view the process is generally not the same. You work 
on an app and you need a feature from the kdelibs... You'll search in the API 
for something having a name related to the task (in our case hardware 
handling). Note how the Qt doc and api doesn't even mention the cool 
technology names advertised ("interview", "arthur", etc.).

That said I'm not against a change, if it was just for myself I hardly care if 
the namespace is Solid, KDEHW, or even something else (btw Kevin might be 
right, IIRC thiago tried to propose a namespace scheme, but I don't remember 
how it ended). I'm just not sure which choice is the best for third party 
developers.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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