On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 07:56 +0100, Arnaud Bonatti wrote: > the future name of ‘dconf-editor’ needs discussions (‘Registry’ and > ‘Tinkerings’ are the best I came with
Hi, may I ask why? What is the reasoning about changing the name of the dconf-editor? You want to rename a reversi game to reflect what it is (I had no idea what 'iagno' is until now), then you want to do something opposite for the dconf-editor? That looks odd. With 'Registry', well, it's too generic and I'd say "Hello Windows" when I see it anywhere on Linux. Does dconf-editor talk only to DConf, or it's available for any GSettings backend? If the later, then the most accurate (but maybe not the nicest) name would be "gsettings-editor". Otherwise I'd really keep the connection to DConf as obvious as it is now. The GConf editor currently identifies itself as "Configuration Editor" and the dconf-editor as "dconf Editor" in the Applications menu, both with the same icon. I do have both of them installed here. Your module rename may mean also renaming in distributions, thus it should not be done in a rush and "just because we can". At least from my point of view. You also lose some kind of mind share with the rename, because existing users know what it is called now, but will be lost when you rename the module (and the packages will be renamed, and the .desktop files will be renamed, and the application will be identified differently, and so on). I know that many application names in GNOME (and elsewhere) do not reflect what they actually do. Either one lives with what the decision makers decided at the beginning, or... A good example is Epiphany. I asked a user to test something with it recently. He installed it, but he could not find it in the Applications. It's not "Epiphany" there, it's just "Web". I know it, but for him it was a surprise and a source of confusion. Just my thoughts. Bye, Milan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list