KDE Discover binary & library names

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Thu Jan 7 17:06:11 UTC 2016


On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 05:59:50PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> So, possible solutions would be, for the binary:
>  1) Keep the name "muon-discover", although there is no connection to
> Muon anymore
>  2) Use "plasma-discover"
>  3) Use "kde-discover"
>  4) Use "kdiscover"
>  5) ${ANY_OTHER_NAME}

Not 4! Please anything but 4! :)

> For the library:
>  A) Keep the name and make it a private library, by moving it out of
> /usr/lib and into e.g. /usr/lib/kde-discover. This would make the lib
> only accessible to Discover itself, other tools wouldn't find it.
> 
>  B) Change the name to something like "libkdiscover"
>  C) ${ANY_OTHER:NAME}

Oh dear gods not B!

> Keep in mind that this is only about binary and library names (and
> probably the name of the release tarball?), the name of the
> application remains what it is.
> Aleix and I briefly discussed this on a few occasions last year, but
> would like some feedback from more people on it.

Thanks for bringing this up, I'm fine with any of 1,2 or 3 and would sync the tar to follow that.

Jonathan


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