There are 2 applications "Alarm Clock" with the same icon

Bug #923747 reported by Christian Giordano
22
This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Alarm Clock Applet
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
alarm-clock (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

These are 2 very different applications (alarm-clock and alarm-clock-applet). Comparing the detail pages the difference becomes clearer, but in the Dash (where more info is not available) becomes impossible to differentiate them.

While having a different icon would be sensible, the icon itself can't be enough to express the difference in features.

Proposed solution:

Add to the application submission review process, in case are missing, the following items:

1) Comparison of the application name with previously approved apps.

2) Avoid very generic names, or at least concatenate it with more descriptive words to better communicate the features or complexity.
Examples: a simple app like alarm-clock could be named "Simple Alarm". A fully featured app like alarm-clock-applet could be named "Alarm Clock Plus".

3) Avoid third party apps to use the same icon someone else app is using.

Tags: metadata
tags: added: metadata
Robert Roth (evfool)
affects: software-center (Ubuntu) → app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Changed in app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in alarm-clock (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in alarm-clock-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in alarm-clock:
status: New → Confirmed
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