On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 01:08:11PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Olav Vitters <o...@vitters.nl> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 06:32:04PM +0200, Florian Müllner wrote: > >> Polari is a simple IRC client designed for GNOME 3. Tentative designs > >> have been around for a while, but hacking only started around Guadec. > >> It is obviously not end-user ready at that point, but I'm confident > >> that it can be in time for 3.12, thus this feature proposal. > > > > The name is not consistent with other GNOME 3 applications. We now have > > Web, Files, Photos, Music, etc. Will the Polari name be kept? Any > > concious decision between maintainers and designers? Just wondering why > > it is different, we had Bijiben, but it now also calls itself Notes. > > The core applications are unbranded and have generic names. The idea > is that these apps should be installed by default. The generic name is > appropriate in this case because (a) the app is essentially part of > the OS and (b) it tells new users what all the default apps do. > > I don't think the suggestion is that Polari will be a core app, or > that distros should install it by default - hence it has a brand of > its own. It is still a GNOME app though, in the sense that it is > created by GNOME and follows the GNOME 3 design patterns.
Cool, thanks for clarifying. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
