Terminology cleanup: snaps vs. apps

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Ted Gould <ted at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I'm not driving to a particular point,
>

Might be useful to.. :-)


> more trying to show that the naming doesn't extend well for even these few
> cases, and we have even more on the Ubuntu phone today. We expect the
> number to grow. Certainly we can provide our own scheme for naming these
> things, and then provide a mapping to the Snap naming, but that's ugly and
> generally confusing. I'd prefer to have a terminology framework that can
> grow to handle all of the cases elegantly.
>

I'm proposing that all we have are applications inside snaps.. how is that
hard to extend from? Where have you shown that this doesn't apply well?

This sucks: "A Unity Application is a Snap Application that has…"
>

Yeah, I wouldn't write that either. I would instead say that a unity
application ships in a snap. Unity applications, command line applications,
graphic applications, service applications.. these are all applications.
You can ship any of these applications inside a snap. Seems to feel good.


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
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