Re: RFS: i-news - GTK-based RSS Ticker
On 08/22/2011 12:49 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 08/22/2011 11:29 AM, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>>> While I'm not a DD at the moment, so couldn't sponsor even if I wanted
>>> to, but i-news - as already mentioned on -devel@ - is uncomfortably
>>> similar to inews (which is a pure virtual package at the moment, but
>>> still).
>>>
>>> news-rss-ticker was suggested earlier, that sounds like a good name to
>>> me, certainly less confusing and generic than i-news.
>>
>> Yes but (IMHO) very long so not easy to remember nor to type.
>
> Since it's a GUI app, more often than not, it will be run from a menu,
> where the binary's name doesn't matter. I do not believe it would be
> typed more than once or twice.
>
> But even then, I'd suggest something other than i-news. Like "grssnews"
> or somesuch. Or just drop "news" altogether and come up with something
> creative like quite a few of the gnome stuff did (totem, cheese, etc).
tickr ?
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Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007@gmail.com>
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