[Mageia-dev] New mockups about mageia-app-db

Mon Feb 14 21:14:09 CET 2011

Here's my thinking-outside-of-the-box suggetsion.
+
+Portmanteau
+
+ From Wikipedia:
+"Portmanteau" comes from French porter, to carry + manteau, cloak
+(from Old French mantel, from Latin mantellum). In modern French, a
+portemanteau (or porte-manteaux) is a clothes valet, a coat-tree or
+similar article of furniture for hanging up jackets, hats, umbrellas
+and the like.
+
+So Magia's (or anybody's) Portmanteau is a container (like a
+storehouse) for all things related to applications. From informarion
+to discussion, to experiments, to results and anything else related to
+applications and packages.
+
+And, it's French.
+
+On 2/14/11, David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:08:20 -0500, rihoward1 at gmail.com
+> <rihoward1 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>
+>> 'Mageia Application Discovery' is awkward English.
+>> I suggest 'Mageia Application Depot'  as a depot is a storehouse.
+>
+> Application Database or Application Library would better fit
+> given the original request of a name that is not distribution
+> dependent, which means (to me)  Mageia cannot be in the name.
+>
+> I'd go with something like Application storehouse, Application
+> Information, or Application Warehouse, depending on how well the
+> translations of those names work in other languages.
+>
+> Regards, Dave Hodgins
+>
+
+
+-- 
+Hoyt
+