The xdg-app story

[Jasper St. Pierre]

Uh, let's not jump the gun on Zapp immediately -- I think our
marketing and brand teams might have better names than what we were
able to come up with.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:29 AM, James <purpleidea at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Keep in mind the mailing list is xdg-app at ... and so are many other things...
>
> Cheers,
> James
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  Jasper