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 :-)).

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