FIle names in /usr/share/examples could be friendlier
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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example-content (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Today's example-content directory (/usr/share/
This is entirely unnecessary, because the file system we use has always (as far as I can remember...) supported spaces and, for that matter, just about any other character in file names. It would be way friendlier looking if the files here were named in friendly, nontechnical ways such as "Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase" (As opposed to Ubuntu_
(Even the file extensions are pretty pointless, but I'll let that pass as a necessary step for portability and given that determining MIME types isn't exactly foolproof).
While I understand the avoidance of complex file names for most software projects, I don't think there is a reason not to have friendly ones for example-content, at least to show users how awesomely forgiving the file system is :)
Marking as duplicate to hopefully get more momentum for the other bug which is tagged as a papercut.