[Urwid] Renaming Urwid and splitting up the repo

[Sascha Silbe]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:50:15PM -0400, Ian Ward wrote:

>>> I didn't think of that.  Do you have another name in mind?
>> Why don't you keep "Urwid"? That name is unique (!) and doesn't look 
>> as noncreative as conui, consoleui or whatever. I like it. If I only 
>> had such good names for my own projects. :)
> It is unique, and maybe Urwid sounds better in German than English :-)
Probably. What about just declaring the (german) pronounciation on the 
home page? ;)

> I believe that giving the project a more meaningful name will help 
> people know at a glance if it might be of interest to them, and later 
> remember the project name.
I don't think conui or consoleui is much more descriptive. In my 
experience, most package names are either some kind of technical 
function description (like daemontools, pcb, gpsd) or a chosen name that 
doesn't directly (i.e. without reading the description) reflect the 
function (e.g. Apache, KDE, Firefox).
Technical function names: Most often there are several similarly or even 
identically named projects that in the best case represent something 
completely different (daemon tools CD emulation [1]) and in the worst 
case it's a directly "competing" product (e.g. GPSd [2] - apperently 
down ATM - or NCSA httpd vs. CERN httpd [3]).
Unique names: You need to read the description to gather what it does, 
but you'd need to do that anyway since even a technical function name 
doesn't give you enough details (console UI? for what application? Win32 
or game console? etc.). Distinctive names are easier to remember, which 
might even help adoption. Often enough, I remember having seen some 
interesting library somewhere that I now would have a use for now, but 
don't find it anywhere because there are so much similarly named things 
that it's like finding a needle in a haystack. Just take a look at the 
Google results for "consoleui". Wouldn't find urwid anywhere in there. 
Instead, take a look at the 517 matches for "urwid". Apart from usual 
SPAM entries, every single one (well, at least those I checked :) ) 
actually is about this project!


[1] http://www.disc-soft.com/home
[2] http://www.crs4.it:8000/gpsweb/14
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Httpd

CU Sascha

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