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"awesome-lua" is probably not a good choice of name as the most common association of "awesome" with "Lua" is the Lua-based Awesome window manager.

by spb 12y ago

LewisJEllis 12y ago
This is a totally valid point which I considered, but I think the association of awesome-<language> for lists like this is more valuable, since part of the purpose is to make it accessible for people outside the lua world (who probably won't know about awesomeWM anyway).
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- Sander_Marechal 12y ago
  But you make life a lot more difficult for people who do use the Awesome Window Manager, because it becomes much harder for us to find solutions to problems using Google for instance.
  - klibertp 12y ago
    Just add "wm" to your queries...
  - LewisJEllis 12y ago
    'awesome-lua' is not typically a phrase/term referring to the Awesome WM. On GitHub, there is only one awesome-wm-related repo by the name `awesome-lua`; it's just one person's configuration and hasn't been updated since 2012. I don't think I'm stepping on anybody's toes here. Typically, the window manager is referred to as either just 'awesome' or as 'awesome wm'. awesome-lua is not a name conflict with 'awesome' or with 'awesome wm', and the worst case for search results is that awesome-lua shows up and bumps everything else down by one spot. As klibertp suggested, adding 'wm' to your query makes awesome-lua not show up at all; claiming that I 'make life a lot more difficult' is rather silly.
johncoltrane 12y ago
Awesome would be "lua-configured", not "lua-based".
- Ar-Curunir 12y ago
  It's a bit difficult to separate the commonly used libraries from the window manager itself. These libraries are basically necessary to have any sort of decent UX with the WM. These libraries are written in Lua, so to call the WM only 'lua-configured' is a bit disingenuous.

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"awesome-lua" is probably not a good choice of name as the most common association of "awesome" with "Lua" is the Lua-based Awesome window manager.

by spb 12y ago

"awesome-lua" is probably not a good choice of name as the most common association of "awesome" with "Lua" is the Lua-based Awesome window manager.

LewisJEllis 12y ago
This is a totally valid point which I considered, but I think the association of awesome-<language> for lists like this is more valuable, since part of the purpose is to make it accessible for people outside the lua world (who probably won't know about awesomeWM anyway).
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- Sander_Marechal 12y ago
  But you make life a lot more difficult for people who do use the Awesome Window Manager, because it becomes much harder for us to find solutions to problems using Google for instance.
  - klibertp 12y ago
    Just add "wm" to your queries...
  - LewisJEllis 12y ago
    'awesome-lua' is not typically a phrase/term referring to the Awesome WM. On GitHub, there is only one awesome-wm-related repo by the name `awesome-lua`; it's just one person's configuration and hasn't been updated since 2012. I don't think I'm stepping on anybody's toes here. Typically, the window manager is referred to as either just 'awesome' or as 'awesome wm'. awesome-lua is not a name conflict with 'awesome' or with 'awesome wm', and the worst case for search results is that awesome-lua shows up and bumps everything else down by one spot. As klibertp suggested, adding 'wm' to your query makes awesome-lua not show up at all; claiming that I 'make life a lot more difficult' is rather silly.
johncoltrane 12y ago
Awesome would be "lua-configured", not "lua-based".
- Ar-Curunir 12y ago
  It's a bit difficult to separate the commonly used libraries from the window manager itself. These libraries are basically necessary to have any sort of decent UX with the WM. These libraries are written in Lua, so to call the WM only 'lua-configured' is a bit disingenuous.