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Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer by ayoisaiah on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:02AM (#20391806)
This scheme of naming binaries is popular amongst Elementary os apps. Maybe that's were the Dev took the idea from.

I don't mind it, and if it bothers you, you can easily alias it to something else

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Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer by vetinari on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:48AM (#20392290)
It is a scheme used by Flatpak.

The package prefix is mandatory, in order for flatpaks not to stomp on each other.

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Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer by TingPing on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:35PM (#20394433)
To be exact Flatpak only requires that for exported data files. Since binaries are not exported they can be named anything.
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Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer by vetinari on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:42PM (#20394521)
Binaries are not exported, but helper launch scripts are (those that do "exec flatpak run ...").
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Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer by ayoisaiah on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @04:47PM (#20396408)
Oh alright, I didn't realise that
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Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer by agumonkey on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:44AM (#20392238)
of course, after you locate the binary in your fs
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