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vircadia / community-apps

Community App Repo for Vircadia.
https://vircadia.com/
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Improves Writing and Removes References to "Functionalities". #32

Closed Penguin-Guru closed 2 years ago

Penguin-Guru commented 2 years ago

I am not sure if there is a concept of "functionalities" that is different from applications but, since I have not happened across that information and since this is the "community-apps" repo, I have taken the liberty of removing those references. Feel free to leave them in if they do refer to something other than applications, but in that case it might be good to (1) add some documentation to clarify what "functionalities" are and (2) rename this repo to something that does not specify "apps".

JulianGro commented 2 years ago

I guess the idea is that you can have scripts that do not have a tablet UI.

Penguin-Guru commented 2 years ago

That's what I thought too, but they are still technically apps, right? The phrasing is a bit confusing. Maybe those should be considered non-tablet apps? Although they are still installed from the tablet.

Since "applications" are usually visual, which in this case makes sense to be on the tablet, maybe the "functionalities" could be called something like "extensions", "expansions", or "client modules". The two kinds (and any others added later) could still be distributed though the same app in Vircadia, there would just be some visual indicator of which type of thing each optional add-on is. For example, a slightly different background colour and/or a letter or fancy pictograph that symbolises the category. On this repo, a top level directory could be added to contain the new category of things. The documentation would just have to define the categories/terms.

JulianGro commented 2 years ago

I do agree that "functionalities" is a bad name for scripts. I guess just using "application" for all scripts is good enough for now. This repo is called community-apps after all.

Penguin-Guru commented 2 years ago

Ok, I agree that just calling them all apps is fine for now. This might be something to take note of for later though, since re-categorising the apps will be more work when there are more of them. Whoever handles the pull requests can decide. :p