[Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

Steven Tucker tuxta2 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 11:09:49 CEST 2012


On 01/10/12 04:49, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-09-30 at 20:13 +0200, Angelo Naselli wrote:
>
>> Well to be honest that has been already discussed via irc,
>> and it seems to be as you said a good thing, the real
>> question is how to call it :)
> The usual choices are
> 1. an acronym few people will remember
>     e.g. miascm (multi-interface system control module)
>
> 2. a cute name with no relation to function
>     e.g. WandWaver
>
> 3. a name that suggests purpose, perhaps with an abbreviation for the
> commandline
>     e.g. Configuration and User Management
>     and, er, "conman" as a command (not cum, I think).
>
> I can review the Perl code a little if it helps - my goal with Perl is
> always to write something that can be read and changed later, even if
> it's less "Perl-like" as a result. E.g. send me a file or two.
>
> Liam
>
Thank you Liam, I will take you up on that once I get a little bit more 
done.
I haven't taken on doing things the "Perl way" for the very reasons you 
state (loops for example are more C like).



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