rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

Lars Wirzenius lars at ubuntu.com
Mon Nov 3 12:37:40 UTC 2008


ma, 2008-11-03 kello 08:11 +0000, Matthew East kirjoitti:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Lars Wirzenius <lars at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > ma, 2008-11-03 kello 08:17 +0100, Mario Vukelic kirjoitti:
> >> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:31 +0530, shirish wrote:
> >> > had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due
> >> > to trademark related names.
> >>
> >> Non-technical users have absolutely no idea what "cruft" means.
> >> Wikipedia correctly says, "Cruft is computing jargon"
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft
> >
> > Hmmm. That is, unfortunately, a very good point. Not sure what would be
> > the best way to deal with that.
> 
> It's to remove the word.

That would leave the name as "Remover", which is also not so good. :)

I'm OK with renaming the whole application again, if that's the
consensus. Perhaps it would be enough to just change its name in
the .desktop file, though?

> The whole application needs a thorough review.

Agreed.






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