[Qgis-developer] Qgis application name

[Tim Sutton]

Hi William (and for general attention)

I have changed the application name in main.cpp here from qgis to
QGIS. One thing to bear in mind though is that this change puts QGIS
into 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind mode' - it forgets all
settings in QSettings because the application key is different. I'll
commit this because if there was every a good time to be breaking a
few eggs, this is it (before we release 1.0).

Regards

Tim

2008/8/6 William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>:
> Talk about cleaning up the menus for 1.0 got me to thinking about the
> application name.  At least for OSX and Windows, if not Linux, 'qgis' seems
> strange.  All lowercase, that is.
>
> Everything on the website and in the docs says either 'QGIS', or it's full
> name 'Quantum GIS'.  So, for the 1.0 release, I suggest 'QGIS' (all caps).
>
> What about the version in the name?  Currently it's using a *nix style, full
> version, no spaces between the name and the version.  Also strange-looking
> on OSX and Windows.  At least put a space (OK on OSX) or hyphen between name
> and version (and leave out the .revision).  Leaving off the version would be
> best - if someone wants multiple versions side-by-side they can safely
> rename the application on OSX (I don't know how easy that is on Windows or
> Linux).
>
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