On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 4:59 AM, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote:
> Michael Catanzaro <mike.catanz...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > >> * Maps appears as GNOME Maps in Software, Maps in about dialog >>> * Clocks appears as GNOME Clocks in Software, Clocks in about dialog >>> * Music appears as GNOME Music in Software, Music in about dialog >>> * Software appears as GNOME Software in Software, Software in about >>> dialog >>> >> >> I like this style. The app shouldn't have a totally generic name in the >> software center, so we prepend GNOME to the generic display name there. > > > I disagree. For some time I've argued that we should drop the "GNOME". > Reasons for this: > > 1. App names should be consistent. > 2. We generally don't expect users to know what GNOME is. > 3. There are other, better, places we can advertise the project, if that's > what we want to do. > > But names also need to sufficiently identify the named item. Ending up with 5 "Clocks" and 4 "Maps" in gnome-software isn't really the best user experience.
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