Rename the application

[BryanDollery]

Your application name is impossible to google. Try searching for help with 'app', or 'linux app', or anything like that and you'll not get anywhere near finding something, anything, even remotely useful.

I know you thought it was clever, and descriptive and all. It is, it's just that really common words like "the", "phone", and "app" don't make good names for things because they become impossible to find.

I really like your application, I really do. it's great, and I'll use it everywhere from now on, because of the level of standardization it provides. Truly useful. But, really badly named.

[hkdb]

I agree that it's a bad name but it's not because I think it's clever. It's cause I am not that creative when it comes to naming. With that said, I am open to suggestions on what to rename app to. 🙏

[BryanDollery]

Boring: Unified Package Manager (upm)

Creative: Human app manager (ham)

Questionable: Synchronize Modular Packages (symp)

Crazy: app-store-search (ass)

Seasonal: Santas Little Helper (slh)

Anything_but_app: aba

The final one is the best - reminds me of gnu

[jtbrough]

@hkdb - I tend to agree with @BryanDollery here. Naming is hard, but this is a terrifically powerful tool that is possibly being limited by its lack of discoverability since searching for app is an incredibly overloaded term.

If you are interested in naming suggestions, in addition to those above, I'll humbly submit:

• omni package manager omni
• omnipack op
• crosspack xp

or, if you like acronyms:

• Cross OS Repo Engine core
• Extensible Package Manager xpm
• Cross Repo Unified Experience crux

I do quite like Unified Package Manager upm as well.

[hkdb]

Unfortunately, there's already a upm for a different purpose but looks similar enough at a glance for it to be confusing to new comers. Otherwise, as much as @BryanDollery says it's boring, it's still what feels like my favorite for now yet it feels like it's just not quite good enough.

I like op a lot too but the full name itself is ughhh (ie. omnipack or even omnipak) and the searchable term would be the full name so it's always front and center. Not sure if I am OK with that name as the creator of this project.

With that said, I have always thought opm as a decent choice but regardless if I ambrace the fact that it can be pronounced like opium and I can even play it off in a humorous way as it's a painkiller for package management, OR... fight it off and say it should not be pronounced like opium declaring specifically to disassociate the project from the negative common pronounciation, I am worried that it may still seem inappropriate for some or even offend someone.

Last but not least, it feels so natural to type app. So much so that I will likely alias it or change the binary name after installing it for my personal use case if/when I decide on a better name to change to 😅

[hkdb]

There's apparently this too:

upm

[RichardFevrier]

I think you already have a name on your own README.

PMASP: A Package Management Assistant with Super Powers

😄

[BurntVoxel]

I'm definitely voting for OmniPack. But CRUX is an interesting one, both are cool.