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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About merging "ayatana", "indicator", "libindicate", "appindicator" in one global USE flag
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:20:54
Message-Id: fbfea0681c192a1636394d351ae0c79b387ff392.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About merging "ayatana", "indicator", "libindicate", "appindicator" in one global USE flag by Pacho Ramos
1 Ühel kenal päeval, E, 06.04.2020 kell 15:23, kirjutas Pacho Ramos:
2 > El jue, 02-04-2020 a las 16:28 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió:
3 > > Hello,
4 > >
5 > > I was reviewing about how to enable globally on my system the usage
6 > > of
7 > > libappindicator and I realized that we have multiple names for that
8 > > in the
9 > > tree.
10 > > "ayatana" is the only global one, while other packages are using
11 > > "indicator",
12 > > "libindicate", "appindicator"...
13 > >
14 > > Personally I would merge all them in only one, and I wonder if
15 > > maybe
16 > > "indicator"
17 > > or "appindicator" would be more meaningful for most users than
18 > > "ayatana", what
19 > > do you think?
20 > >
21 > > Thanks
22 >
23 > Personally I would opt for global "appindicator" as it seems to be
24 > more widely
25 > used and I think it is a bit more self-explanatory :/
26
27 So I assume we can consensus here, so I'll start off with renaming it
28 in nm-applet as part of other changes, and assume this ends up as a
29 global USE flag eventually.
30
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32 Mart

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