Re: Application name strings consistency

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 4 September 2017 at 13:34, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:

> > I disagree. For some time I've argued that we should drop the "GNOME".
> > Reasons for this:
> >
> > 1. App names should be consistent.
> > 2. We generally don't expect users to know what GNOME is.
> > 3. There are other, better, places we can advertise the project, if that's
> > what we want to do.
>
> But names also need to sufficiently identify the named item. Ending up with
> 5 "Clocks" and 4 "Maps" in gnome-software isn't really the best user
> experience.

And, before you ask: filtering for GNOME core apps would require a
black/white list inside every single app store, which is a solution
that does not scale. :-)

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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