[Qgis-developer] Renaming SEXTANTE

[Antonio Locandro]

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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