[Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

Mon Oct 1 11:23:50 CEST 2012

2012/10/1 Steven Tucker <tuxta2 at gmail.com>:
+> On 01/10/12 04:49, Liam R E Quin wrote:
+>>
+>> On Sun, 2012-09-30 at 20:13 +0200, Angelo Naselli wrote:
+>>
+>>> Well to be honest that has been already discussed via irc,
+>>> and it seems to be as you said a good thing, the real
+>>> question is how to call it :)
+>>
+>> The usual choices are
+>> 1. an acronym few people will remember
+>>     e.g. miascm (multi-interface system control module)
+>>
+>> 2. a cute name with no relation to function
+>>     e.g. WandWaver
+>>
+>> 3. a name that suggests purpose, perhaps with an abbreviation for the
+>> commandline
+>>     e.g. Configuration and User Management
+>>     and, er, "conman" as a command (not cum, I think).
+>>
+>> I can review the Perl code a little if it helps - my goal with Perl is
+>> always to write something that can be read and changed later, even if
+>> it's less "Perl-like" as a result. E.g. send me a file or two.
+>>
+>> Liam
+>>
+> Thank you Liam, I will take you up on that once I get a little bit more
+> done.
+> I haven't taken on doing things the "Perl way" for the very reasons you
+> state (loops for example are more C like).
+
+Pardon me for jumping in although I'm not a developer.
+
+I agree that for the time being (as long as the "old" mcc is in the
+repos) a different name is unavoidable, even if it's just "mcc2". But
+when a switch to the new version this new version should inherit the
+name "Mageia Control Center/Centre". The main reason for that: This
+unique type of "configuration mall" has been one feature which has
+been regarded as one of the most valued of Mandake/Mandriva/Mageia in
+all reviews and all comments about the distribution. Over 10 years it
+has been a recognized landmark for these distributions. As such it
+should remain under the same name.
+
+The name will neither make it more difficult nor more easy for other
+distributions to use it (as has been said in this thread), we also
+have tools or whatever adopted from other distributions (like Fedora)
+and they are still carrying their name, even with "fedora" as prefix.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+