On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:02, Samuel Verschelde <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 11 février 2011 11:53:28, Michael Scherer a écrit : > > Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 23:58 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > > > As Marcello pointed out, mageia-app-db is not the best name we can find > > > for our application database. > > > > > > So let's try to find one :) > > > > > > Some constraints : > > > - preferably a name without "Mageia" in it. Why ? Because this tool > could > > > be used for various distributions. Of course, the Mageia instance will > > > have Mageia's logo and name on it (and we are creating it as a part of > > > the Mageia project), but if someday another distribution wants to use > it, > > > it will feel weird to have Mageia in the application name. In fact, I > > > already plan to run instances of the application for opensuse, fedora > and > > > mandriva (no, nobody asked me to do it, but it will be easy to do, and > > > this will help me keep in mind that the application must not entirely > > > depend on distribution specific stuff, or only via modules/plugins). > > > - a name with a meaning carrying at least some part of the goals of the > > > application, but without forgetting that it's still an application (and > > > packages) database. > > > > What about adding : > > - a name that could inspire a logo > > - a name that is not trademarked > > - a name that is not already used on freshmeat nor as a package on the > > major distro > > > > Indeed, that was kind of implicit, but better saying it loud :) > > Samuel > > AppScope ? -- Frederic
