On Sat, Aug 8, 2020, at 05:39, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote: > On Saturday, 8 August 2020 13:24:40 BST Jacky Alcine wrote: > > Hey y'all. > > Heyhey! :) > > > Is there an interest or has there been discussion to rename that part of KDE > > (Get New Hot Stuff) into something that's more explicit in what it does? > > Like "Application Addons"? > > We have attempted to come up with something else which encapsulates the > concept of what Get Hot New Stuff does, and the problem is that it is not > just > application addons. GHNS (and the underlying Open Collaboration Services API) > makes no requirements on which specific types of content are distributed > using > it, and so we end up in a situation where switching to a more specific names > reduces the concept.
Hm, this is a very important point. I understand how this can be limiting. It kind of sucks that this is the case but ironically speaks as a testament to the current name and how it's generic enough to define what it does! > We /could/ of course go all buzzwordy on it and call it something like > Content Store, but that just makes it seem like it's only inactive > consumption > stuff, or we could call it Application Addons, but that does not suggest it > could also be used for something like comic books or other types of creative > writing (of course i'm going to use a personal example, Peruse uses GHNS for > its book store). Ah interesting. I didn't realize that OCS could be extended this way (which makes sense - it basically accepts anything). > It is not that i am particularly against finding another name, but it has > to > be extremely good and wide ranging as a term to encapsulates what GHNS does > for it to be a good replacement, and while i would be pleased to be proven > wrong, i find myself doubtful that we can find something which is objectively > better than Get Hot New Stuff to such a degree that what mindshare it already > has becomes discardable. (and i'm not suggesting that it is a world wide > acknowledged trademark type thing going on here, just that any new name would > also have to be good enough to make that choice) Yup, I agree deeply! > > Additionally, is there a means of centralizing a place for these add-ons? > > Having to remember where and how I installed things all over is a bit of a > > hunt. > > That would be Discover :) We've been improving that over the last little > while, and you'll even start seeing GHNS updates in your Discover updates > notifier very soon :) See that's where I got the name "Application Addons" from; Discover calls its client for OCS that. Interestingly so, I didn't have Peruse installed (and quickly did so as I have a huge digital comic book collection) and now I see it in the list of Addons in Discover. Perhaps having applications either call out to Discover's interface for this (I do notice a standalone interface used in System Settings when one attempts to view the Plasma Styles of the community). > -- > ..dan / leinir.. > http://leinir.dk/ > > >