From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RwDZN-0001yG-Uf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:04:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 247F6E07CA; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2703E07C7 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakl21 with SMTP id l21so2364945iak.40 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:03:59 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.155.231 with SMTP id vz7mr10034742igb.26.1328969039176; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:03:59 -0800 (PST) Sender: lxnay@sabayonlinux.org Received: by 10.231.85.206 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:03:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120211142720.6d75db72@pomiocik.lan> References: <20120211142720.6d75db72@pomiocik.lan> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:03:59 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: rLJVz06kGLpvb6WQo2_iRW5wzcQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml From: Fabio Erculiani To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlWGghzNWoEHTQe8UU11ERSq8qqaw55O/B0TNfa5rJ6kmKa0iDD3CVrZNd112nMNnnmU0gK X-Archives-Salt: 852ba5c2-d5c5-48d2-882a-95fc1829e84a X-Archives-Hash: 5a23615d9bd1d9a82577100ed3ef2e42 On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny = wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100 > Fabio Erculiani wrote: > >> I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe >> I'm wrong. >> Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name (application >> name) to packages. >> Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to "LibreOffice Writer" in package >> metadata. >> >> How about expanding metadata.xml (adding to its .dtd) to also support >> this? It would be nice to show this info in GUI package managers >> instead of the actual, and ugly (for the newbies), CP or CPV. >> It would be just a small addition that would make a big diff. > > I think we already expand the name in DESCRIPTION whenever it is > ambiguous. DESCRIPTION !=3D Application Name Description is way too long, and sometimes, it even overflows 80 chars limit (I recall there was a suggested limit for it, and it is 80 chars -- that's why we have long-description in metadata.xml). > > Could you please mention some Gentoo examples which would benefit from > the proposed change? As I wrote, GUI Package Managers or Web frontends to Portage (package brows= ers). Example image, taken from Ubuntu SC, showing application names: http://cdn.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Selection_008.jpeg > > -- > Best regards, > Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny Cheers, --=20 Fabio Erculiani