[Qgis-developer] Renaming SEXTANTE
Antonio Locandro
antoniolocandro at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 9 12:29:53 PDT 2013
I have to agree with this, Sextante has become a very recognizable "brand" I feel renaming it doesn't really bring any real benefit and users already know Sextante will be doing Analysis, my two cents with this
Antonio Locandro
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 20:00:25 +0100
From: filipesdias at gmail.com
To: volayaf at gmail.com
CC: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Renaming SEXTANTE
Hi,Many people refer to "Vector" and "Raster" tools as Ftools and GDAL. Sextante, in my opinion, is not different, so I dont see why we should change anything. The Sextante menu is called "Analysis" which makes sense. And Sextante toolbox seems to be a good name, as well as Sextante Modeler.
Additionally, Sextante is a recognizable name for gvsig and Arcgis users. Considering that we can expect that a lot more users are going to start using QGIS after 2.0 is released, it would make sense the keep the Sextante naming
Best regardsF.
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
After much thinking and considering some suggestions, I think it would
be a good idea to remove the SEXTANTE branding, and just have
everything with a more descriptive name, such as "geoanalysis",
"processing", or something like that. In the long-term, that will help
to integrate the analysis framework into QGIS,and help users locate
it.
It shouldn't be more difficult than just replacing string ocurrences,
but before doing such a big (and potentially troublesome) change, I
would like to hear the opinion you guys have about this (is it a good
idea? what name should we use instead of "sextante" for packages and
modules? any good refactoring tool that you recommend?,etc)
I am going to be out of office next week, so I might not read my email
everyday, but it would be great to hear what you think about it. Once
I am back, I will proceed to change it,
I discussed it briefly with Tim and Paolo, who agreed on this, so I
assumme this is not incompatible with the API freeze and the release
plan that we have, but if anyone thinks this shouldn't be done now,
please say it. I personally think that it would be good to have it in
2.0, so all analysis stuff is called "analysis" (or whatever) and not
with a name that (although I like and feel very identified with it)
for most people doesn't make much sense...
Thanks in advance.
Victor
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