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The name of the project is unfortunate, as it makes it very difficult to search the web for related projects such as Linux or OS X ports.
by sowbug 11y ago
The name of the project is unfortunate, as it makes it very difficult to search the web for related projects such as Linux or OS X ports.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoMany projects fall in this trap. I use Awesome as my window manager, and the Awesome theming library is called Beautiful. Now try googling "awesome beautiful wallpaper"...
- DanBC 11y agoOr the file manager in Fedora being called "Files".
- kancer 11y agoIts real name is nautilus
- DanBC 11y agoWhich is not present in the icon, the menu bar, the about dialog or the help file. http://imgur.com/v4jH7Yf http://imgur.com/v4jH7Yf At least they've managed to be consistent with the rename. Compare this to Packages, which is called "packages", or "software", or "software install" or "packagekit". http://imgur.com/dFidCWL http://imgur.com/dFidCWL
- joosters 11y ago'Files' is a much better name than 'Nautilus', IMO. If you've ever spent some time teaching Linux to a non computer literate person, you come to appreciate sensible does-what-it-says GUI program names and the non-obvious names start to stick out. And a special curse for all those people who decide to name their programs in part by the language or toolkit that it uses. What on earth are you thinking? Users don't care about your little details, you are just making things awkward for them.
- DanBC 11y agoBut this sub-thread is about searching for help. How is a new user supposed to search for help with Files? Including the distro name doesn't help. And if the rename is complete then no-one should be calling it nautilus in the forums either, so knowing that it used to be called something else doesn't help. Call it something like Nautilus File Manager or Gnome File Manager or Fedora File Manager. But "files" on its own is a useless name.
- digi_owl 11y agoGnome do that with a crap load of their software, i guess they think it is "user friendly". For example the binary for their file archive program is file-roller, but the entry in XDG compatible menus are Archive Manager. Frankly i find that Freedesktop has been another example of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". More and more Freedesktop projects reminds me of the kind of Windows stuff i moved to Linux to get away from.
- xpinguin 11y agoUPD: http://i.imgur.com/TVLZgqw.png http://i.imgur.com/TVLZgqw.png I don't know, how google did it, but the first result for exactly the query of yours is: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Beautiful http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Beautiful What surprises me, is that it works in firefox private mode, where neither of search customizations should work, in theory (fresh clean cookies and local storage, isn't it?). However, yeah, I do indeed google awesome-related stuff from time to time. UPD #2: it works from different browser and different IP either. So it seems that you example is not relevant anymore :)
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoYeah, I think Awesome WM has reached enough users that the specific phrase is now recognized by google. But I remember this was a pain about five years ago.
- digi_owl 11y agoIf you search for, and click on, a lot of tech/linux related stuff, Google likely bubbled you such that those kinds of results come out on top.