Naming policies of non-official kde stuff

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Tue Oct 14 21:29:04 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:20:20PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> That leaves plasma-only thingies.
> Should they be called plasma-$NAME, $NAME-plasma, $NAME-plasma-$TYPE, $NAME, 
> plasma-$TYPE-$NAME or something completely different.
> for $TYPE, there is dataengine, containment, applet and a few others.
> I guess my suggestion would be plasma-$NAME. 
> If a source package contains a application and something uses plasma, they 
> should in general be in same package, but if that is not desired, the plasma 
> part can be split out in plasma-$NAME

We've been using plasmoid-foo in Kubuntu, which seems a nicer fit
since that is what plasma applets are called by upstream.

Jonathan



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