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[Darcy Brás da Silva <dardevelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok. this is a tricky subject. From my perspective, I see a great
advantage on de.branded apps it becomes easier to know what the program
does. 
On the other end, That's why icons exist, to represent what the
application is/does. Having that said, I think is far more beneficial to
have all apps
with their custom name, and maybe with an hover of a more generic name.
This would not only avoid the clashing apps problem, but also make it
easier
in the future when other developers decide to bring their apps to
elementary. Note that Elementary is an OS project, which means it is a
"platform" for deployment
of applications. So -1 on de-branding apps, overall results would only
lead into inconsistency and give foreign look to post_default
installations. 
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 14:00 -0500, Cassidy James wrote:
> I just want to re-base this discussion on Geary, as that's what Dan is
> specifically asking about.
> 
> I'm +1 on branding it as "Mail" on our desktop. We're sort of in the
> process of moving in that direction. That would mean its full name
> would be "Mail" and its generic name could be "Email Client" or
> something (I'm not suggesting specifics, just that we should make them
> different). I am pretty sure we're not moving to make Slingshot
> display only generic names, and that's not what this discussion is
> about.
> 
> Regards,
> Cassidy James
> 
> On Sep 19, 2012 1:36 PM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff"
> <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         I'm all for using debranded apps too, but switching to showing
>         GenericName instead X-GNOME-Fullname alone is not sufficient.
>         
>         Okay, let's say we have debranded apps. Now Totem is "Movie
>         Player" and Audience is too. What happens if elementary OS
>         user installs Totem or Ubuntu user installs Audience? They get
>         two "Movie Player"s with the same icons which are in fact
>         different apps.
>         
>         So *if* we go for it, we'll also have to make Slinghot detect
>         and handle such collisions: either show X-GNOME-Fullname for
>         each "colliding" app (resulting in "Totem Movie Player" and
>         "Audience Movie Player" respectively), or show GenericName for
>         apps that are set as default ones and X-GNOME-Fullname for
>         other colliding apps (resulting in "Movie Player" for default
>         player and full branded name for the other one).
>         
>         And please, read "X-GNOME-Fullname" thread in the archives
>         before commenting on this further, it has a good list of pros
>         and cons of this approach.
>         
>         -- 
>         Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>         OS architect @ elementary
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Darcy Brás da Silva <dardevelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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