Naming for the Ubuntu Download Manager interface

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:01:34 +0000
Mike Sheldon <michael.sheldon at canonical.com> wrote:

> ubuntu-download-manager makes sense as a name to me, especially as
> it's one of the APIs in the Ubuntu SDK.
> 
> On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 12:34 -0200, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > 
> > The real issue with download-manager is that it's too general. We
> > all have several download managers in our systems, so this gives no
> > hint of what it's really talking about.
> > 
> > We can call it ubuntu-download-manager if that's how the software
> > was named. Note that part of the rationale of having
> > unity8-contacts and unity8-calendar named like that was that these
> > interfaces are likely to change in meaningful and incompatible ways
> > in the near future. If the download manager is going to be bundled
> > with unity8, it may be wise to do the same. We can always introduce
> > a more general interface later.. not so nice to get out of a
> > general interface that doesn't work.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Mike Sheldon
> > <michael.sheldon at canon ical.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > >  Currently the interface for UDM (Ubuntu Download Manager) has
> > > been named unity8-download-manager. It's my understanding that
> > > whilst we might initially be bundling UDM within the unity8 snap
> > > to make the first stages of development easier (e.g. so it can
> > > talk directly to unity8's transfer indicator), the long term plan
> > > would be for it to be
> > > available separately.
> > > 
> > >  Having UDM permanently tied to unity8 would seem to add a strong
> > > disincentive for app developers to make use of it at all, as their
> > > apps
> > > would then no-longer be portable across different desktop
> > > environments.
> > > 
> > >  As such, I'm wondering if the naming of this interface is perhaps
> > > misleading?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > >  Mike
> > > 
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Go down the ufw Route and just call it uncomplicated download manager
then it isn't restricted to Ubuntu as a distro or a desktop variant

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