Thanks Marc-Andre :) I do think this is the best solution. Less intrusive for linux desktop users.
When is the next release of spice-gtk planned to happen? Regards, Luis On 5 April 2013 15:08, Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Luis de Bethencourt < > l...@debethencourt.com> wrote: > >> Hello everybody :) >> >> After 2 years of slow development snappy 0.3 is out, and it has picked up >> the interest of the Fedora packagers. The problem is that the snappy >> executable name conflicts with spice-gtk. >> >> In Fedora /usr/bin/snappy is owned by spice-gtk >> in debian/gentoo /usr/bin/snappy is owned by snappy the video player. >> >> http://projects.gnome.org/snappy/ >> >> Having either renamed is equally inconvenient. >> >> So this decision is a matter of what is better for linux users. Having >> /usr/bin/snappy be a spice-gtk snapshot tool or a video player? >> >> What do you guys think? >> > > Although snappy in spice-gtk predates snappy player by about 6 months, I > think the usefulness (and hype) of the second is obvious. > > spice-gtk snappy is mainly useful in scripts for testing, so users will > need to adapt their script, or change they environment somehow (aliases or > whats not). I don't this it's a major issue. But if somebody is concerned, > raise your voice quickly. > > I suggest for upcoming release to rename snappy to something like > snappy-spice (that would be easy enough to discover when completing for ex) > > > regards >
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