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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:11:05AM -0700, Jason Flatt wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2004 8:49 am, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Quoting Derek Moyes <sorcerer AT flamesnyper.com>:
> > > Actually, I was going to start a discussion on renaming our "-profile"
> > > spells to
> > > simply the name of the desktop, like "gnome", "kde" or "enlightenment".
> > >
> > > I think this would be much easier for new and existing (and old!) users
> > > alike.
> > >
> > > For instance, right now we have a "kde-profile", "gnome-profile"
> > > (gnome1), "gnome-2-desktop-profile" (gnome 2.4) and "gnome-desktop"
> > > (gnome 2.6). While I
> > > applaud supporting multiple versions of the same desktop... perhaps it
> > > could be
> > > done like the "linux" spell, where you "cast gnome" and get a menu.
> > >
> > > Besides, don't you think that "cast gnome" or "cast kde" is much more
> > > intuitive,
> > > from a new-user standpoint?
> > >
> > > Comments? Flames?
> >
> > The problem with that is that, last I recall, you cannot have a directory
> > be the same name as a spell.
> >
> > -sandalle
> 
> Um, I'm stepping out on a limb, here, but what I /think/ you meant is that 
> you 
> cannot have a spell with the same name as a section.
 
It is possible, but breaks the behaviour of some sorcery commands (like
gaze version).
Currently we have one instance of that problem, xfce, which will be
probably be renamed to xfce3 soon.

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