[packman] libkate vs. kate

Cristian Morales Vega cmorve69 at yahoo.es
Mon Feb 28 22:36:37 CET 2011


2011/2/28 todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Cristian Morales Vega
> <cmorve69 at yahoo.es> wrote:
>> 2011/2/28 todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com>:
>>> Kate is the name of KDE's text editor, but it is also the name of a
>>> karaoke library and tool.  Might this be an opportunity to rename the
>>> karaoke program to avoid confusion?  Perhaps something like
>>> katekaraoke or kate-karaoke.
>>
>> The package is a link from OBS's multimedia:libs. And I don't see any
>> conflict with KDE's kate (I'm looking directly at the Packman Build
>> Service web interface).
>>
>
> There is no conflict, it was more an issue of confusion for users.
> Someone trying to install the text editor might just look at the name
> and install the karaoke program, or vice versus.

You mean "katedj"? IMHO the difference is enough to make the user read
the description, but I don't have any preference for katedj neither.
Still, the change must be done in multimedia:libs (notice libkate is
an official openSUSE package since openSUSE 11.4).




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