Open-shell-menu: Is the hypen in the name necessary...

Created on 8 Jul 2020  路  3Comments  路  Source: Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

This is SUPER anal I know... I also understand I can just modify it myself. I'm just submitting that Classic Shell was known within the Windows Explorer environment as "Classic Shell" not "Classic-Shell". Now, I understand that there may be reasons to have non-spaces but it used to be: right-click > "Pin to Start menu (Classic Shell)" and now it's "Pin to Start menu (Open-Shell)" and I just think it would be more in line with your reincarnation if it lost the hyphen in the user-facing contexts. Just an idea!

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You both have changed my mind. I dig it. Thanks for the insights.

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I think it's good how it is, for a simple reason: You can search for it. Searching for "open shell" is going to get you lots of hits about molluscs ;) "open-shell", however, distinguishes itself by means of the hyphen. Naturally, having inconsistency in the naming would be undesirable, so having the hyphen remain in user-facing contexts makes sense - otherwise people go searching for the thing they see in their menus and get hits about, you guessed it - molluscs again!

There are also nerdy programmer nerd reasons but whatever.

Hyphens are used frequently in programming, and would help distinguish the software from real shells. The hyphen is also useful because of some edge-case scenarios when using the keyboard to do something related to open-shell, which may or may not recognize an extra space.

You both have changed my mind. I dig it. Thanks for the insights.

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