Frédéric PRACA wrote:
Quoting "Pascal J.Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>:
Frédéric PRACA writes:
Hello,
I hesitated a lot for the name of GSLDAPBrowser and as Alex Perez
told me
(and
it seems that he said that to others) that GS.... name is too
common and
indicates that the project only compiles on GNUstep (which is true
for the
moment and maybe for a long time). So, I'd like you to tell me the
name
you'll
prefer. Personnally, LDAPBrowser.app wasn't so bad but I wait for
your
submissions.
Fred
DirectoryBrowser.app ?
I'm thinking that LDAP is only one protocol to access
directories.
There are other: ph, x500, etc, and perhaps one day you'll want
to
subclass and allow your application to access these directories
too.
Think also about reading directory and directory entry files
(LDIF,
vCard, AddressBook, PalmDesktop TAB&RETURN formated address
books,
etc).
But this way, it duplicates Addresses from Björn Giesler (I think of
vCard and
AddressBook). Moreover, the structure of these directories are very
different
and the GUI won't be accurate anymore. But it's an interesting point
of view.
So you could easily expand your horizons beyond LDAP...
__Pascal_Bourguignon__
Fred
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Personally,
"GSLDAPBrowser" is way way beyond my eyeballs' ability to chop up and
decode visually. It comes across as
"GOSDUIFGUKLHG(TOO_MANY_LETTERS!!!)rowser.app" Sorry, had to
exaggerate that one for everybody.
The good: It says what it is. It says what it does:
"GS"(GNUstep)"LDAP"(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)"Browser"
Everybody seems to have communally decided against prefixing all
GNUstep based applications as "GS"SomeName.app, a la GNOME. This
leads to more variety, and seems like a good way to go. (GWorkspace,
for example. *nudge* "superfluous "G" *nudge* :-) )
So, bye-bye "GS". Hello "LDAPBrowser.app". Still too many acronymal
to fit into my mouth. My jaw hurts just lookin' at that. :-)
Okay, it's a "browser" type program. Lets keep that in mind. It uses
the LDAP protocol... Mail.app isn't called "MBOXMIMEBrowser". So what
is an analogue for GSLDAPBrowser, when condensed/abstracted toward
its function?
"Tourguide.app" won't work, because although the app "takes you on a
tour" of "foreign directories" (i.e. on other machines) it just
doesn't fit conceptually.
"Waypost.app" or "Signpost.app" are possibilities... Both evoke a
"which way into strange and foreign _paths_ can we take?"
"Lightweight.app" refers to the protocol, however I think it
oversimplifies the title to the point where it may be obscure.
Looking up LDAP and the X.500 protocol it is derived from (aka
DAP(which a corresponding "Heavyweight.app client could be entitled.
hehehe stop hitting me!)) conveyed to me that the protocols refer to
a "directory web" in the way that the world wide web refer to a
"document and content web"...
Therefore DAP and LDAP are ways to globally deal with document
hierarchies. So "Hierarchy.app" makes sense. As does
"HierarchyBrowser.app" or "HierarchyWaypost.app" even
"HierarchyTourguide.app." Perhaps "HierarchyPortal.app."
There was also the idea listed to drop the protocol specific
terminology from the application title to permit other protocols to
be supported. In that aspect should the application then be morphed
into a bundle for FileViewer? If that becomes the desired direction
then perhaps GSLDAPBrowser could be converted into a protocol manager
for FileViewer, or the necessary Preferences panes to accomplish
that, with the directory browsing portion being repackaged as a
plugin bundle for FileViewer. Maybe then FileViewer could become
"Portal" or "FilePortal" to indicate its expanded capability.
Or not. I'm just tring to offer constructive food for thought. It
really is kinda funny (the ha ha variety) that I was choking on the
"GSLDAPBrowser.app" title a couple days ago, and now there is a
proposal for potential renaming.
All in all after thinking/typing out my ideas on the title, I think I
like "HierarchyPortal.app" or "HierarchyWaypost.app" the most.
Best Regards,
Lee
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