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Re: ITP: preview -- General purpose image viewer for GNUstep



On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:24:20AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> 
> > > I think this was discussed more than once and people agreed to it.
> > 
> > Discussed where? See discussions _here_ about the "terminal" package (and
> > another one... what was, "mixer"? Or "player"?) "people agreed" does not
> > mean anything
> 
>    See the original ITP, including the part you did not quote :) It
> states that the binary package name has .app appended.

I respect GNUStep packagers for making an effort, but really ".app" is 
itself a generic name.  It certainly violates the spirit of "make it 
unique" -- combining two generic terms does not produce a unique term.
Both are ordinary dictionary words.



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