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[Gilbert Röhrbein <payload@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I exercise on the Twitter example.

Regarding the name of an app, the terms of twitter are clear[0].

> Do:
>
>     Name your website, product, or application with something unique.
>
> Don't:
>
>     Use Twitter in the name of your website, application or product.
>     [...]
>     Use Tweet in the name of your application if used with any other 
service.

I think unity-webapp-twitter isn't technically an app but more like an 
adapter to integrate with Unity Webapp stuff and I hope and strongly 
believe that this is accepted and okay. If this needs discussion, I 
think we should do this separately.

ubuntu-twitter-app is what I want to talk about.

That the app name is against the terms of Twitter we accept as a fact.

Two solutions come to my mind.

0. We could name it something which globs "*Tweet*". But it would 
restrict it to use Twitter only. (opinion: "Go directly to jail. Do not 
pass go, do not collect $200.")

1. We could stick with Gwibber, put nice keywords into the *.desktop 
file like "Twitter", "Tweet" and "Identi.ca" and pray to Unity 
Application lens that the user experience will be fine. And even the 
*.desktop Name need not be "Gwibber Social Client" but could be just 
"Social App" or stuff.

I would personally only accept solution one, not zero, if I need to 
choose between both.

My opinion also is that I disgusted from the beginning the use of 
"Twitter" and "Facebook" in the names of the core apps. I understand the 
focus on these services caused by superior user reach. But I am sad 
about the lack of choice of services in the design of the core apps. My 
estimation is that putting choice into the (now called) 
ubuntu-twitter-app for Status.net services is a low hanging fruit.

thanks,

	payload

[0] https://twitter.com/logo

PS: will reading ubuntu-twitter-app and unity-webapp-twitter I saw that 
both are named "Twitter"