The xdg-app story

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:10 AM Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre at mecheye.net>
wrote:

> 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.
>

We would like an opportunity to come up with something if you all don't
mind?

sri


> 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
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> xdg-app mailing list
> >> xdg-app at lists.freedesktop.org
> >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg-app
> >
> >
> > 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
> > _______________________________________________
> > xdg-app mailing list
> > xdg-app at lists.freedesktop.org
> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg-app
>
>
>
> --
>   Jasper
> _______________________________________________
> xdg-app mailing list
> xdg-app at lists.freedesktop.org
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg-app
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/flatpak/attachments/20160330/e0961acf/attachment.html>