From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: List packages Status column terminology Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:24:06 +0530 Message-ID: <874n527av5.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bnzbi4ti.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389981287 32762 80.91.229.3 (17 Jan 2014 17:54:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:54:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 17 18:54:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4Dd5-0004B1-27 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:54:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39442 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4Dd4-0004ca-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:54:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33647) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4Dcm-0004IC-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:54:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4Dce-0002bY-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4Dce-0002bU-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:54:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W4DcY-0003bn-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:54:18 +0100 Original-Received: from 122.167.118.126 ([122.167.118.126]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:54:18 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.167.118.126 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:54:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.167.118.126 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IeSZFSftSGBsp2d4F4/K0gNMGj8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168636 Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 17 2014,Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Why use the word 'available' instead of 'install'? > > Because the top of the columns say that it's about the "Status", and > saying that the "Status" of that package is "install" would make > no sense. > > "available" is not a great choice, tho. The suggested "not installed" > might be a bit better, but it's longer and I'd rather try and shorten > this column. > > Any other idea? Well, it probably would make sense to change the 'Status' to 'Action' as that would be a better reflection of 'list-packages' functionality. sivaram --