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Bug 496932 - Plugins should probably be called Extensions
Plugins should probably be called Extensions
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: Plugins
2.21.x
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-11-15 02:20 UTC by Aaron Bockover
Modified: 2008-08-20 14:51 UTC
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Description Aaron Bockover 2007-11-15 02:20:00 UTC
In an effort to get GNOME applications that support Plugins, Extensions, Addins, etc., to have a consistent name, I propose using the name "Extensions" [1].

From comment #18 on my blog post about the subject [1], I conclude:

  a) There seems to be complete agreement that Add-ins, Add-ons, or anything that could be hyphenized is out of the question. Looks funny too.

  b) That pretty much leaves us with “Extensions” and “Plugins.”

  c) “Extensions” seems to be best suited for internationalization, and you can’t really mess it up (I’d love to see someone spell it Exten-sions). “Plugins” degrades across cultural boundaries [2]. That said, I don’t think getting into a deep analysis of the vague differences between Extensions and Plugins is necessary. For all intents and purposes, they convey the same thing.

[1] http://abock.org/2007/11/14/plugins-addins-extensions-oh-my/
[2] The fact that "Plugins" is very hard to translate was brought up by a number of people. "Extensions" apparently does not have this problem (comment #8):

  "I vote for Extensions. In Italian you can’t really translate plugin, thus one has got to let it untraslated. Every time I use the word “plugin” I have to spend 5 min explaining it. So, besides being very culturally insensitive, it’s time consuming as well."
Comment 1 Josiah Ritchie - flickerfly 2007-11-15 15:03:19 UTC
I'd like to also encourage this change.
Comment 2 Shaun McCance 2007-12-19 23:51:46 UTC
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/gnome-glossary-generic-terms.html.en

The currently recommended terminology in Gnome is "plugin".  If the community feels strongly that "extension" is a better word, then we can change the Style Guide.  But please, let's not have individual applications making this change without a change to the Style Guide.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2008-08-20 14:51:36 UTC
Agreed with Shaun here. Reopen when the upstream discussion has happened to change the recommended term.