Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > >> 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. ... > > I don't see that issue. ... > That's because I blacklist all the MATE and LXDE programs when running in > GNOME.
What if someone wants to run a MATE or LXDE app under GNOME? I don't see why we should stop them, and excluding these apps seems rather arbitrary, particularly if it's because they don't look right somehow. The question of how to handle apps with the same name isn't specific to Software - identical apps also show up in the shell. The solution isn't to change the name in one place and not another. In my mind having some apps share the same name isn't a major issue if we can use other information to differentiate them. One answer here is to ensure that applications always have unique icons. (It seems really odd to have four calculators, created by four different projects, all using the same icon.) The other thing we can do in Software is think about making the developer more prominent. Allan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
