[Sugar-devel] Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

[Anish Mangal]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Chris Leonard
<cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anish,
>
> As I recall, this activity was already renamed once from xoscope after
> it became clear it was colliding in name space with an oscilloscpe
> activity.
>

Correct.

> http://git.sugarlabs.org/xoscope
>
>
> I would suggest that in accordance with the Sugar HIG guidance
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/Activities#Activities_as_Verbs
>
> that a word in verb form be employed as the activity name.
>
> As an example, "Magnify" could apply equally to a telescope or a
> microscope and it is a verb, not a noun.
>
> When a decision is made, we will need to work this out in order to
> preserve the work done in Pootle and to re-establish the git-Pootle
> linkage.  This time around,  I would like to insist that the code be
> migrated to a repo with a matching name.  Having the xoscope git repo
> connected to the telescope.pot has always had potential for confusion
> and this time I want the change done properly.
>
> There are a few other examples of  git/Pootle naming mismatch (e.g.
> oficina/paint, etc.) but it has not been worth the effort to revisit
> these others so far.
>

+1. Any thoughts on the icon? :-)

> cjl
> Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Anish Mangal <anish at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have received requests that the Telescope activity [1] be renamed to
>> Scope, since, off late it has been used in conjunction with not just a
>> monocular, but small microscope attachments (the kind which were
>> distributed at the SF summit). In that light, the name Telescope is no
>> longer widely applicable to the set of applications it is used for.
>>
>> I could see Telescope and Microscope as two different activities in
>> the future with different features. For eg, in the Telescope activity
>> you could have:
>>
>> 1. Dark Frame Subtraction
>> 2. High-Gain Noise Suppression
>> 3. Enabling the camera's night-mode.
>> 4. Crosshairs on the screen
>>
>> Right now, none of this exists, and I don't have the bandwidth to
>> develop those features. So, until that happens, I support renaming the
>> activity to Scope.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4481
>>
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