How to Get Mac Apps on the Mac OS X Dock?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Jan 17 19:13:20 PST 2008


paul beard wrote:
> Hm, "gimp" is not ambigious. But maybe the ports should be named 
> different. gimp and gimp2 are just too confusing, I think.
> 
> 
> [/Users/paul]# port list gimp* gimp                           @2.4
> graphics/gimp gimp-app                       @2.4.0
> aqua/gimp-app gimp-gap                       @2.2.2
> graphics/gimp-gap gimp-jp2                       @0.1
> graphics/gimp-jp2 gimp-lqr-plugin                @0.3.0-6
> graphics/gimp-lqr-plugin gimp-print                     @4.2.7
> print/gimp-print gimp-user-manual               @0.13
> graphics/gimp-user-manual gimp2                          @2.4.3
> graphics/gimp2
> 
> You don't think the first two and the last one are ambiguous?

What I meant was: If the user wants "gimp", he should get gimp. There is
no reason to ask the user any questions what he wants to install. In 
this case, the short description you see by port search does make clear 
what these port contain. I would go by gimp2, since it sounds newer than 
gimp.

Rainer


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