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 1RwCa9-0000OS-Os for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:01:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC92EE06AF; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:01:22 +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 DAF4BE067D for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakl21 with SMTP id l21so2258615iak.40 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:00:38 -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 10.50.34.202 with SMTP id b10mr16841083igj.30.1328965238328; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:00:38 -0800 (PST) Sender: lxnay@sabayonlinux.org Received: by 10.231.85.206 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:00:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: NhDdnKEW6B4TXA_puGh9549-Qk0 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml From: Fabio Erculiani To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlBq06A1ylhQiugAdx7B7aJhOW1K1gn0OvGpPW3KPHwkvYqDh8osgepjnXxGCRd6GfdRJQL X-Archives-Salt: 45687596-63b3-4418-836a-ce113690f2da X-Archives-Hash: 4101ff60176c61bf58d330fdfe268187 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. So? -- Fabio Erculiani