On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Matthias Klumpp <matth...@tenstral.net> wrote: > Hi everyone! > I'd like to start some discussion about the name of the KDE Discover > binary/library names (not about the name of the thing itself). > Reason is that the current library and binary names have a few issues. > At time, Discover publishes a "libdiscover" shared library in a public > path, and a "muon-discover" binary. > Keeping the name "muon" in the binary name is IMHO not that great, > since Muon and Discover are separate products now. > So renaming the binary to just "discover" might sound like a good > idea, but at least for us in Debian this will cause some severe > problems: We already have a package using the "discover" binary name: > https://packages.debian.org/sid/discover > It's in /sbin, but having the same binary name in /usr/bin and /sbin > is generally a bad idea, if it's for completely different tools. > For the library name - libdiscover - we currently have the same > problem: https://packages.debian.org/sid/libdiscover2 > > So, possible solutions would be, for the binary: > 1) Keep the name "muon-discover", although there is no connection to > Muon anymore > 2) Use "plasma-discover" > 3) Use "kde-discover" > 4) Use "kdiscover" > 5) ${ANY_OTHER_NAME} > > For the library: > A) Keep the name and make it a private library, by moving it out of > /usr/lib and into e.g. /usr/lib/kde-discover. This would make the lib > only accessible to Discover itself, other tools wouldn't find it. > > B) Change the name to something like "libkdiscover" > C) ${ANY_OTHER:NAME} > > Keep in mind that this is only about binary and library names (and > probably the name of the release tarball?), the name of the > application remains what it is. > Aleix and I briefly discussed this on a few occasions last year, but > would like some feedback from more people on it.
Should we rename it to "plasma-discover" then? Some +1 from Plasma maintainers? :D Regards, Aleix _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
