Uh, let's not jump the gun on Zapp immediately -- I think our
marketing and brand teams might have better names than what we were
able to come up with.
We would like an opportunity to come up with something if you all don't mind?
sri
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:29 AM, James <purpleidea gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
>> On 30 March 2016 at 11:09, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
>>> One is the origin="xdg-app", type="xdg-app" and X-XdgApp-Tags=.. in the
>>> appdata. Richard would know if changing this is a problem?
>>
>> Not a problem, I can support this in libappstream-glib very easily.
>>
>>> The second is that the summary has a "xa.title" metadata extension in
>>> the summary. However, that can be rewritten during zapp remote-update,
>>> and it is completely optional, so it doesn't affect anything important.
>>
>> I think xa is fine fwiw.
>>
>>> 3) Already existing software using xdg-app apis should not break.
>>>
>>> Note: this doesn't include gnome-software which would need some serious
>>> changes to handle the new name for libxdg-app anyway.
>>
>> Sure, I was just going to C&P the xdg-app plugin and rename all the
>> symbols with the new prefix, making one plugin conflict with the
>> other.
>>
>>> This isn't a lot, and in fact, we could probably keep the "xa.*"
>>> namespace making it even less.
>>
>> Works for me.
>>
>>> Pronunciation!
>>> Is it "zap!", or is it "zee-app"?
>>
>> In my head it's been ZAP! like in Batman and Robin, as ZeeApp would be
>> "Le ZeeApp" in French. :)
>>
>> Richard
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>
> For what it's worth, I liked the name "xdg-app" and when I released
> "mgmt" I got lots of complaints about the name too. In the end we kept
> it, but I realize it's a hard problem and someone will always be
> unhappy.
>
> Keep in mind the mailing list is xdg-app and so are many other things...
>
> Cheers,
> James
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