The xdg-app story

[Alexander Larsson]

On mån, 2016-03-21 at 13:47 +0100, Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > On sön, 2016-03-20 at 15:38 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hey all,
> > > 
> > > I'm struggling with the "story" for xdg-app. xdg-app is a
> > > technical
> > > name and isn't any good for googling, branding, doesn't have a
> > > logo,
> > > or anything like a snazzy website. Compared to other names
> > > (cough,
> > > "snappy") I think it's going to be hard to promote with the
> > > current
> > > lack of website and name.
> > Yeah, I agree. Another problem is that there is no good word for
> > something packaged with xdg-app. "an app", "an xdg-app app", or
> > things
> > like that doesn't really pop in a document text.
>
> I'd go for "Containers" or "Bundles". These are well-known concepts
> nowadays and quite related to what xdg-app is trying to solve.

I explicitly try to avoid using the term container around xdg-app
because it confuses things a lot. Containers as the are typically used
on the server side (docker, etc) are quite different, and I want to
avoid getting the impression that xdg-app and e.g. docker are
competitors, or do the same thing (even though they share a lot of
kernel technology).

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