Re: GNOME Games source name

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 15:53 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 03:10:59PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Yet this is what you're doing. If you want an application to be
> > renamed, you'd better make sure that you can actually come up with
> > a
> > good name, and argue why it is an insurmountable problem to call
> > the
> > package "gnome-games-app" or similar in your distribution.
>
> gnome-games-center ? Like gnome-control-center.
>
> Anyway, the plugins of gnome-games will maybe be tricky to package.
> Isn't a Flatpak sufficient? The purpose of Flatpak is to avoid all
> the
> duplicated work of packaging in all the distros. I have always seen
> that
> as a big waste of time. For new apps, does it really make sense to
> package them in the traditional manner?

Again, that's not relevant to the discussion about why the "gnome-
games" tarball name is a problem for distributions.

The flatpak name is "org.gnome.Games". I doubt it conflicts with
anything.