Re: DBus method naming of upower/udisks

2009-12-10 Thread randyf
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 09:09 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: >> udisks already uses org.freedesktop.UDisks, and I expect upower will >> change similarly. > > Right - and I think udisks, it being the project name is pretty OS > neutral so I don't see any probl

Re: DBus method naming of upower/udisks

2009-12-10 Thread randyf
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: [email protected] [2009-12-10 20:49 -0800]: I don't mean to be disrespectful, but it doesn't surprise me that this is considered OS neutral. However, the fact that "U" sits prominantly in the name implies that it is derived from 'udev': a Linux-on

Re: DBus method naming of upower/udisks

2009-12-10 Thread randyf
y On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, [email protected] wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: [email protected] [2009-12-10 20:49 -0800]: I don't mean to be disrespectful, but it doesn't surprise me that this is considered OS neutral. However, the fact that "U" sits prominantly in the na

Re: DBus method naming of upower/udisks

2009-12-11 Thread randyf
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: > [email protected] [2009-12-10 23:17 -0800]: >> If the "U" is useuless, then remove it. As we are describing >> disks, devices, or power, then take the "U" out, and describe the >> service, which is POWER, DEVICES, or DISKS. > > Calling it "disks" wa

Re: DBus method naming of upower/udisks

2009-12-11 Thread randyf
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Richard Hughes wrote: > 2009/12/11 Martin Pitt : >> Projects should have proper nouns to tell them apart from other >> projects. Otherwise, why bother, and just call them "kernel", >> "browser", and "instant-messenger". > > upower is instantly more googlable than power.

Re: DBus method naming of upower/udisks

2009-12-11 Thread randyf
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: > Projects should have proper nouns to tell them apart from other > projects. Otherwise, why bother, and just call them "kernel", > "browser", and "instant-messenger". > > Martin > So thinking about this a bit more, the question that should be asked h

Re: DBus method naming of upower/udisks

2009-12-11 Thread randyf
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Martin Pitt wrote: > [email protected] [2009-12-11 1:43 -0800]: >> And to me, 'disks' or even 'disk' fits much better than 'udisk' >> (what is a 'udisk' service). And if we talk about power, why >> 'upower'? > > You are reading this in the application called "mail", a