chore: Pick program name (and change window title once it's been decided)

[gselzer]

@tlambert03 I'm assuming it wasn't deliberate to name the window "Mike" 😆

Lots of options here, including:

• PyMMCore GUI (matching the repo)
• mmgui (matching the entry point)
• MicroManagerGUI

I actually kinda like the first one - opinions welcome (cc @tlambert03 @fdrgsp @marktsuchida)

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[fdrgsp]

We can have a default name but maybe it can be nice to let the user decide how to name their microscope 😁

[tlambert03]

it wasn't deliberate to name the window "Mike"

it was :) but just a joke (kinda 😄 ). I don't really want to want to name the actual program "something Gui". nothing in Program Files or Applications feels the need to clarify that it's a graphical user interface. It's assumed. So, we need some sort of name for this application beyond just the descriptor that this is "the" gui project that we're all working on.

I hate naming... but have been discussing it recently and the name that seems to keep winning so far is micro-pylot or some variant of that. Here's a long list of names, most junk

top contenders:

• micro-pylot
• mui
• pymm

standard type names:

• micro-pylot / MicroPylot / µPylot
• pymm / pym / mmpy
• pymmgui / pymmcore-gui / mmgui
• magni-py
• pysight
• snapPy
• microscoPy
• pyfocal
• Micros
• Scope pilot
• Scopy

friendly/playful names that have vague or not-so-vague references:

• Fred
• Mike
• Otto
• Mats
• Nico

[gselzer]

it was :) but just a joke.

You know, I really wouldn't mind "Mike" if there wasn't the name clash with https://github.com/jimporter/mike

the name that seems to keep winning so far is micro-pylot or some variant of that.

Yeah, that's not too bad. "pylot" really hurts my brain, but there's no objective reason it's bad - I probably just have to get used to it. I dislike names that you can't type on a/my keyboard, so my preference would be to avoid µ in the name.

• pymm / pym / mmpy

This might even be a good thing, but when I see these I think

As an aside, a short option could be "mui" - captures both "mu" (micro) and "ui" - although I find pronouncing it "mewy" awkward, and I know you're not a fan of (g)ui in names...

[tlambert03]

You know, I really wouldn't mind "Mike" if there wasn't the name clash with https://github.com/jimporter/mike

I know, honestly it's not bad :)

for this particular thing, I'm not as concerned with pypi clashes. we will probably publish to pypi under some name, but given that this is much more application than library, we are more likely to guide people to the bundled versions: https://nightly.link/pymmcore-plus/pymmcore-gui/workflows/bundle/main

"pylot" really hurts my brain

I think i know what you mean actually.

mui

I do like that! adding it to the list

[gselzer]

mui

I do like that! adding it to the list

Notably, mui and micro-pylot are not taken on pypi, but pymm/pym/Pylot are

[tlambert03]

A downside of mui is that”material ui” sort of dominates that acronym. Would be hard to google

[marktsuchida]

Back in MM 1.4, the MMStudio window title was the config file name:
https://micro-manager.org/Micro-Manager_User's_Guide#the-micro-manager-main-window
(In case you want ideas for ways to defer the name pick while having something to put in the window title. I'd probably prefer the basename rather than the full path, though.)

I agree with not having the word GUI in the name, but don't have any other good ideas. "Micro-Manager 3"? (Likely premature for some time, of course.)

[tlambert03]

Micro-Manager 3

😂 also feels a bit presumptuous

window title was the config file name:

good point, we can indeed distinguish between the window title and the program name. but of course, for various application reasons (native program awareness) we also need to pick a program name

[tlambert03]

Micropylot is out because https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.1558

Other thoughts for recursive acronyms (cause everyone loves those)

GAMMa - GAMMa augments micro-manager
Timm - Timm is [more] micro manager
SPAM - spam pythonically augments mm

Other random short names

Luma