Re: Package name for gnome panel applets ?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:11:41PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does debian have a policy for the name of gnome applets packages ?
> 
> I've looked at the ross's GNOME Packing policy, but this point seems to be not
> defined for the moment:
> 
> "Panel applets -- "gnome-applet-foo" or "foo-applet" (TODO)"

there was already a thread about that here and also in debian-devel.

I personnally package two gnome applets, hardware-monitor and
grandr-applet. The first package is already in debian, under the name
hardware-monitor. Both gnome-applet-hardware-monitor and
hardware-monitor-applet seem too ugly to consider. That said, i renamed
grandr-applet to gnome-randr-applet, and altough the package is not yet
in debian (depending on X 4.3.0), i find this a fitting name. Both of
these choices have been discussed in the above mentioned threads.

I think if possible that keeping the gnome-foo-applet would be best, as
it clearly says that it is a gnome applet, provided foo is not too long.

Maybe foo-gapplet (and foo-kapplet) would also be a solution, i don't
know.

Friendly,

Sven Luther