I still wonder why Pharolauncher is not Pharo.app yet. And I could not agree more with your post about apps. But I think I have upset enough people this week :D
On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 at 14:04, Damien Cassou <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
