Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by lisivka on Saturday January 07, 2017 @12:18AM (#13342497)

Name clash with KiTTY: http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ , terminal emulator, fork of PuTTY. It will be impossible to create package for both in official repos until name conflict will be resolved.

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Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by chriswarbo on Saturday January 07, 2017 @09:45AM (#13344327)

> It will be impossible to create package for both in official repos until name conflict will be resolved.

Not really, if your package manager allows hierarchies then something like `network.kitty` and `x11.kitty` could be used. If they have to use the same namespace then names like `kitty-ssh` and `kitty-term` could be used.

If you're installing binaries into a single location (e.g. /usr/bin) then they can either be left to conflict, or renamed by the packager (e.g. Debian renames task-spooler's `ts` to `tsp`, to avoid conflicting with moreutils' `ts` timestamp command). If packages are installed to independent locations (e.g. as in Nix and Guix) then there's no need to rename anything, although it might be nice to provide symlinks with unique names so that both can be used from the same $PATH.

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Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by ry4n413 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:48AM (#13342893)

so what happens now, some sort of rap battle or fight to the death over who gets to keep the name?

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Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by rr- on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:23AM (#13342983)

One idea is to s/K/T/ but it'll quickly get flamed into oblivion.

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Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by Nexxxeh on Saturday January 07, 2017 @06:27AM (#13343543)

Yeah, seems like a poor choice for a name given the similarity too. If it were a cat tracking app, it'd be forgivable, but this is ridiculous.

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Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by hobarrera on Saturday January 07, 2017 @01:11PM (#13345584)

kitty isn't packaged for me, so a package in the official repos is still possible. It just depends on whether your distro packages the other kitty or not.

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Actually, scrub that:

> KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft® Windows® platform

There's no name clash on any distro. Both kitties support different OS families.

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Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by asymmetric on Saturday January 07, 2017 @12:38AM (#13342550)

Well, the kitty you mention only works on Windows, so what packages on official repos are we talking about?

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Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by lisivka on Saturday January 07, 2017 @12:46AM (#13342567)

It's opensource. PuTTY is ported to Linux and is already in Fedora official repo[1], so KiTTY can be ported to Linux too.

[1]: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/putty/

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