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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/16/2015 08:25 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 20:03 -0200, Martin Albisetti wrote:
>> Now that we're approaching convergence with the desktop on the one
>> hand, and Snappy on the other, it becomes more common (or in the case
>> of Snappy, the only way!) to interact with apps from a command line.
>> The reality is, the reverse-domain approach was flawed, as it became
>> clear the first time we typed "snappy install
>> com.ubuntu.developer.beu...", I go annoyed half-way through.
> 
> Do you know why for snappy it was decided to install by package name instead of
> by application name? It seems that's more what people are looking for. We'd
> probably also want to support, in theory, multiple setups of various
> applications. So perhaps the way I configure and setup OwnCloud would be more
> desirable than the way someone else does it. You'd want to easily allow for both
> to be discoverable in the store.
> 
I'm not sure I understand the distinction here. Can you clarify? (It might
simply be semantics since I think of package name and app name as described
here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppStore/Interfaces/ApplicationId).

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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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