Reindl Harald ha scritto: > > > Am 04.03.2017 um 22:08 schrieb Reindl Harald: >> >> >> Am 04.03.2017 um 21:50 schrieb Luigi Toscano: >>> Reindl Harald ha scritto: >>>> >>>> >>>> Am 04.03.2017 um 21:34 schrieb Gerald B. Cox: >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>> <mailto:h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> oh yeah instead maintain / replace a for many years known >>>>> application with a clear name introduce a new application with a >>>>> idiotic (because pointsless) name - we really live in a great >>>>> decade >>>>> >>>>> Yeah Harald, that crossed my mind also - but my guess is that someone >>>>> else developed the "Spectacle" application and either didn't like the >>>>> "KSnapshot" name or wasn't allowed to use it. Contrast that with >>>>> Google >>>>> who can't seem to settle for a name: e.g. Google Talk, Hangouts, >>>>> Messenger, Allo, Duo, Android Messages >>>> >>>> projects like KDE *really* should introduce rules that shitty >>>> application >>>> names which don't give anybody a clue about what the applications is >>>> supposed >>>> to do are prohibited, especially when consider ot replace knowen and >>>> logical >>>> named ones >>> >>> You don't need to know the name of an application which pop ups when >>> you press >>> "Print". >> >> but i need to know it when i have to fix existing setups whre "print" >> after update don't work - there are people who don#t reinstall their >> machines and profiles for many years > > oh and i need to know what packages are supposed to do when reported by "dnf > leaves" as not required - i tend to cleanup my systems permanently, maybe one > reaosn why my Fedora setup from 2011 still runs fine As pointed out, Spectacle will forcibly replace KSnasphot in F26. It should have happened before, this is something to remember for the future, but probably not so much are those kind of replacements are definitely not frequent and this entire discussion is probably taking more energy than the replacement itself. > >>> No need to think about strange reasons. You can follow the story, >>> which was >>> open and publicly discussed. This is the start of the Spectacle >>> (KScreenGenie, >>> initially) and the reason to write a new program (which uses relevant >>> parts of >>> the old code). >>> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2015q2/001374.html >>> >>> This is the discussion about the renaming: >>> https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=144025072413294&w=2 > > https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=144025072413294&w=2 has just a single > follow-up post in the thread and that's it > > if there are follow-up posts not replied corerctly somewhere in the internet i > have 2 points: > > * people not capable reply to a mail lack qualification for decisions > * your link is useless See my answer to the other email by Gerald (wrong copy-paste). -- Luigi _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
