Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> writes:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@inria.fr> wrote:
"Sean P. DeNigris" <sean@clipperadams.com> writes:
I now have three Pharo.app files on my Mac - Launcher, Spur, and non-Spur. It would be great if we can agree to call one thing Pharo, and add appropriate modifiers to the other two names.
I'm not an OS X user, but I have the impression that .app is reserved for graphical applications, one you can start with a double click. For me, no Pharo VM is a graphical application and thus none deserve its .app file in /Applications.
On the contrary, what we currently call the Pharo Launcher is a graphical application so it deserves a .app file. I called it just Pharo.app because I didn't see any concurrence on the name and some in the Pharo board would like the launcher to be the default Pharo download (the one behind the big Download button on the website).
It would be great for Pharo Launcher to be the default download, but why can it not still be called "PharoLauncher.app". It is still just an app on top of *real* Pharo and calling the launcher Pharo.app I believe presents a cognitive dissonance for a newcomer to understand the distinction. The launcher is used to start non-/more-than-Pharo applications like Moose, so to me the launcher application is more generic than just Pharo. Seeing a launcher is generically "a computer program that helps a user to locate and start other computer programs" [1] to me it makes sense to explicitly keep "Launcher" in the app name as the default download.
I disagree but I don't care enough to argue. If OS X users agree (and maybe the board as well), someone should make the change (that won't be me :-)). -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill