[MeeGo-community] Extras and Garage need an agreed name

[Shaver, Michael R]

> On 12/9/10 4:15 AM, "Henri Bergius" <henri.bergius at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Thomas Perl <th.perl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So (to get some context here) the "Apps" part will be like
>> http://maemo.org/downloads/Maemo5/ and the "Packages" part will be
>> like http://maemo.org/packages/? Sounds good to me, and makes a lot of
>> sense. +1 for that :)
> 
> Exactly, except with the split between "Apps" and "Surrounds" like
> David mentioned.

I do think these names seem straight forward, but there could be issues when
you start to integrate clients on devices. An example would be if there
isn't a way to have an integrated App manager on the device to pull from
multiple repositories. Then the client might have 2 or 3 different app
installers and it isn't clear to the end users what the difference is.

What ever name is eventually decided on should follow the process all the
way from developer to end user and stay consistent throughout. Having it
change for either makes it confusing and doesn't promote end users from
becoming testers and eventually developers.

With that in mind, I wonder if using something like "Extras" is a better
approach. Extras can encompass both "Apps" and "Surrounds" and wouldn't
potentially be confusing with other App installers like AppUp or OVI? Extras
can also follow the entire process along.

Thanks,
Mike

 
> You can follow the progress in
> http://www.qaiku.com/channels/show/meegork/ and especially in the
> thread about last week's sprint: http://www.qaiku.com/go/a25h/
> 
> The whole system is build on the data provided by OBS, so for example
> to add a screenshot to your app just upload it as a file to your OBS
> project. The actual interface development happens on GitHub:
> https://github.com/nemein
> (check the com_meego_* repositories there)
> 
>> Thomas
> 
> /Henri
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