The xdg-app story

[James]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 March 2016 at 11:09, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:
>> One is the origin="xdg-app", type="xdg-app" and X-XdgApp-Tags=.. in the
>> appdata. Richard would know if changing this is a problem?
>
> Not a problem, I can support this in libappstream-glib very easily.
>
>> The second is that the summary has a "xa.title" metadata extension in
>> the summary. However, that can be rewritten during zapp remote-update,
>> and it is completely optional, so it doesn't affect anything important.
>
> I think xa is fine fwiw.
>
>> 3) Already existing software using xdg-app apis should not break.
>>
>> Note: this doesn't include gnome-software which would need some serious
>> changes to handle the new name for libxdg-app anyway.
>
> Sure, I was just going to C&P the xdg-app plugin and rename all the
> symbols with the new prefix, making one plugin conflict with the
> other.
>
>> This isn't a lot, and in fact, we could probably keep the "xa.*"
>> namespace making it even less.
>
> Works for me.
>
>> Pronunciation!
>> Is it "zap!", or is it "zee-app"?
>
> In my head it's been ZAP! like in Batman and Robin, as ZeeApp would be
> "Le ZeeApp" in French. :)
>
> Richard
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For what it's worth, I liked the name "xdg-app" and when I released
"mgmt" I got lots of complaints about the name too. In the end we kept
it, but I realize it's a hard problem and someone will always be
unhappy.

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Cheers,
James