Re: 3.12 feature: polari

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 01:08:11PM +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 06:32:04PM +0200, Florian Müllner wrote:
> > > Polari is a simple IRC client designed for GNOME 3. Tentative designs
> > > have been around for a while, but hacking only started around Guadec.
> > > It is obviously not end-user ready at that point, but I'm confident
> > > that it can be in time for 3.12, thus this feature proposal.
> >
> > The name is not consistent with other GNOME 3 applications. We now have
> > Web, Files, Photos, Music, etc. Will the Polari name be kept? Any
> > concious decision between maintainers and designers? Just wondering why
> > it is different, we had Bijiben, but it now also calls itself Notes.
>
> The core applications are unbranded and have generic names. The idea
> is that these apps should be installed by default. The generic name is
> appropriate in this case because (a) the app is essentially part of
> the OS and (b) it tells new users what all the default apps do.
>
> I don't think the suggestion is that Polari will be a core app, or
> that distros should install it by default - hence it has a brand of
> its own. It is still a GNOME app though, in the sense that it is
> created by GNOME and follows the GNOME 3 design patterns.

Cool, thanks for clarifying.

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Regards,
Olav