Hi chrysn,<div><br></div><div>I did look up android intents when I picked the name. The other name I had in mind was "services" but that's a very different concept on Linux. It is to be expected though that an extremely similar concept would be named that way on a different platform. I do not think there would be confusion as:</div>
<div> - Android does not have xdg-compliant apps</div><div> - "Android intents" and "XDG intents" are two different-but-similar names for two different-but-similar concepts.</div><div><br></div><div>I am fully opened to suggestions for a different name anyway :)</div>
<div><br clear="all">J. Leclanche<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:55 AM, chrysn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrysn@fsfe.org">chrysn@fsfe.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
hello jerome,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:44:54PM +0000, Jerome Leclanche wrote:<br>
> During the past couple of weeks, I've been working on a spec for intents<br>
> (best name I could come up with).<br>
<br>
</div>care should be taken when using that name in that context, as that very<br>
name ("intents") is used on the android platform for a very similar<br>
concept -- that could lead to confusion.<br>
<br>
i'm just an android user, but to give you an idea of what "intents" mean<br>
there, an application could offer to<br>
<br>
android.intent.action.DIAL any url starting with tel:<br>
<br>
or an application that uses the address book would ask the os to<br>
<br>
android.intent.action.EDIT contact://contacts/people/1<br>
<br>
it might even be worth looking into it in more detail, maybe it's<br>
similar enough to be compatible.<br>
<br>
the android intents are documented on [1].<br>
<br>
regards<br>
chrysn<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html" target="_blank">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html</a><br>
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