HaikuDepot is not a very good name

A store is a place where you buy things. In HaikuDepot, everything is available for free. You see this can’t work :stuck_out_tongue:

If you want the whole history of names, the app to install and update packages in BeOS was called SoftwareValet. Which I don’t think is a much better name.

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If we get any time companies who sell software for haiku, we can think around a HaikuStore.

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Good day,

(take this post with some amount of humour :crazy_face:)
Actually, and honoring the best Sci-Fi movie of all times ;), The Fifth Element (Le Cinquieme Element) by Luc Besson, as KDL (Kernel Debugging Land) is also the acronym for the main characters of that movie, Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) and Leeloo (Mila Jovovich), I think that the best name for HaikuDepot, not being HaikuDepot, would be:

Supergreen Software Bazaar

Supergreen, for obvious Fifth Elemental reasons, and Bazaar for the exoticness of Haiku. If Supergreen Software Bazaar launches with some Tar music, and we can get Microprocessor manufacturers to add some spices on top of the processors that release the spice aroma over certain workloads, could trigger that too when launching Supergreen Software Bazaar, so with the Tar music and the spices’ aroma, user would be transported to the Istanbul bazaars’ environment looking for Haiku software. And changing all .HPKG to .TAR would be even better, matching by name the Tar instrument too.

Wouldn’t that be amazing? :sweat_smile:

Regards,
RR

Just my 2 cents, I don’t understand the commotion on the naming “HaikuDepot” Seeing the history (and it has been said) BeDepot was one of the instances to download BeOS packages, there was BeBits also, but I’m OK with HaikuDepot …

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After one month of silence for this comment. You started again lots of discussion by renew it.
But HaikuBazar would be nice, thx roiredxsoto

Thanks @brunobastardi, though the post was more of a fun :crazy_face: :crazy_face: :crazy_face: thing than serious. Seriously I wouldn’t dare to ask Blender devs to change the name to Threedeemaster, nor Wonderbrush to Paintorama, nor LibreOffice to BusinessDocLivre and so on… you get the point :wink:

Some humour sometimes is good to guarantee mental stability :partying_face: :partying_face: :partying_face: , not that I’m mentally unstable… am I? :scream:

Regards,
RR

PS: I do fully understand the reasoning behind @bitigchi’s proposal though. With XXXstore or StoreXXX everywhere it’s “hard” to do something different. Mate Desktop calls it Software Boutique, KDE calls it Discover. Actually, imho the name is less important, and the Quick Tour/Jump Start app (non-invasive) would solve any doubts newcomers might have regarding the software available and where to search for it.

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:+1:

Hahaa, if I ever write a graphics application/image editor (not very likely to happen), that would be the name for it :slight_smile:

Why is there no Option in the survey to “Keep HaikuDepot”?

that gets my vote

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I like Depot as a name because I use Haiku specifically to get away from the soulless commercial storefronts that modern applications have become, and return to when PCs were playful and packed with simple functionality. Depot evokes that feeling because it doesn’t bring to mind paying for products, but rather logistics, usability, industrial chic.

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HaikuDepot as (GUI) and pkgman (CLI) from terminal is just bad naming. Atleast have the same name.

It’s not the same thing, why name it the same? If you type “HaikuDepot” on the commandline you will get HaikuDepot and not pkgman.

(also, don’t forget the package command which does some stuff HaikuDepot does, but pkgman does not and does stuff HaikuDepot does not do etc.)

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A name of a gui is in the most times different from the program behind.

HaikuDepot is a good name, and the program is for the user. The pkgman command is shell sie, and for expert users they have no fun for a gui to use.

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How can it be a good name, have you read this thread? A lot of people dislike it, not just me. If it were a good name this thread wouldn’t exist.

That’s circular logic “it was talked about” is hardly the same as “everyone agrees with me”

You may also notice the number of likes on extrowerks post, which outnumber the votes in the original poll, I’d say statistically you are wrong in your assesment.

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I am not here to fight, but please accept that some doesn’t like the name.

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Different people diffent meaning. So i can say it is a good name for me.

This dicussion should not only for dislikes

Names like ‘applications storage’ sounds good but is not the ‘be’ style. And we need a not protected name by any other company out there.

appStorage sounds good, but people can think haiku is a mac system.

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Yeah, the whole reason this thread exists in the first place is because someone didn’t really like the name “HaikuDepot”.

Regarding the dual-naming of CLI vs GUI, many popular CLI tools have this sort of system, mainly because it is the GUI (usually an independently developed piece of software) interfacing with the CLI, which means that you can have different GUIs called different things interfacing with the same CLI tool. I’m not sure if that is how HaikuDepot and pkgman interact though, if that is the case, then that means it’s possible for other pkgman GUIs to be made too.

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Any time we have enough users out there and companys create and sell software for it we can need a ‘store’. :wink:

And yes different storages are possibe.

It is not, pkgman, package and HaikuDepot are all frontends for the same library, the package kit, but neither is a frontend for any other tool.
You can develop other GUI applications or commandline applications if you want (for example, a dependency visualizer/graphing tool could be usefull for porting, aswell as a tool to check a repos integrity (finding uninstallable packages))

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