[Geany-devel] [Geany Plugins] naming issues and consistence

[Frank Lanitz]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:56:16 +0100
Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz at student.HTW-Berlin.de> wrote:

> Am 13.12.2009 12:41, schrieb Enrico Tröger:
> > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:56:24 +0100, Frank wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:06:25 +0100
> >> Dominic Hopf<dmaphy at googlemail.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>      
> >>> An example which explains this a bit better is the plugin I maintain:
> >>> GeanyGDB. If a user installed this, it showed up as "Debugger". What
> >>> a user actually would have expected is, that a new item showed up as
> >>> "GeanyGDB". I fixed this with SVN revision 1075 of Geany-Plugins and
> >>> I think there finally is no "debug" or "debugger" anymore which could
> >>> confuse anyone. It all is either "geanygdb" (Unix name) or
> >>> "GeanyGDB" (the actual plugin name) and I will continue this naming
> >>> in that way.
> >>>        
> >> I suggest to use small letters in begin of plugin name as geany is
> >> just a prefix. So s/GeanyGDB/geanyGDB.
> >>      
> > "Geany" in the plugin names is part of the name and should be properly
> > capitalised as it's also done with the other plugins. I think it would
> > be even more inconsistent and confusing if some plugins would be
> > captilised properly (like the internal and some other plugins) and your
> > plugins would break this rule. This would make Dominic's efforts
> > useless.
> >    
> 
> Additionally it looks ugly, IMO :)

Well, I think capital letters at begin of names are ugly. Anyway, I've
committed some patches at least for the plugin manager. 

Cheers, 
Frank
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Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
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