Ben Coman <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Damien Cassou <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Sean P. DeNigris" <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> I now have three Pharo.app files on my Mac - Launcher, Spur, and non-Spur. >>> It >>> would be great if we can agree to call one thing Pharo, and add appropriate >>> modifiers to the other two names. >> >> I'm not an OS X user, but I have the impression that .app is reserved >> for graphical applications, one you can start with a double click. For >> me, no Pharo VM is a graphical application and thus none deserve its >> .app file in /Applications. >> >> On the contrary, what we currently call the Pharo Launcher is a >> graphical application so it deserves a .app file. I called it just >> Pharo.app because I didn't see any concurrence on the name and some in >> the Pharo board would like the launcher to be the default Pharo download >> (the one behind the big Download button on the website). > > It would be great for Pharo Launcher to be the default download, but > why can it not still be called "PharoLauncher.app". It is still just > an app on top of *real* Pharo and calling the launcher Pharo.app I > believe presents a cognitive dissonance for a newcomer to understand > the distinction. The launcher is used to start non-/more-than-Pharo > applications like Moose, so to me the launcher application is more > generic than just Pharo. Seeing a launcher is generically "a > computer program that helps a user to locate and start other computer > programs" [1] to me it makes sense to explicitly keep "Launcher" in > the app name as the default download.
I disagree but I don't care enough to argue. If OS X users agree (and maybe the board as well), someone should make the change (that won't be me :-)). -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
