On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 00:00, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I really think it is silly ti use those generic names in the menu. I
> should change them all to something meaningful like the application
> name.
There's some logic to it. I found the opposite problem when I've
looked at KDE, in the past. All those Ksomething named applications
where the name gives no clue as to what it does. And Gnome was just as
bad:
Evolution - does that sound like a mail program? There was a game by
that name, about evolution.
Empathy - does that sound like an internet messaging program?
Brasero - does that sound like it might be a disc burning program?
At least some programs acknowledge the problem (both ways), and you'll
find them listed in the menus like "Pidgin Internet Messenger" or "VLC
media player."
Applications need to avoid name clashes. Ubuntu has the "snap" package system and
a "snap" program. The European Space Agency (ESA) has the "SeNtinel Application Platform" (SNAP) that provides a "snap" program.
ESA SNAP has a Python library called snappy.
Snap.py is a Python interface for SNAP. SNAP is a general purpose, high performance system for analysis and manipulation of large networks.
It is probably time to have a system of unique identifiers. Package
managers would need to provide a way to search for these ID's.
George N. White III
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