Common naming guidance for nightly apps
While the HIG mentions on how to produce a nightly variant of the app icon, we don't provide guidance for naming the development version of an app, giving room for apps like GIMP to further lower the legibility of the app name.
In addition, some developers raise valid concerns about accessibility, where screen readers will make no distinction between the stable and nightly versions of the app and are appendning characters to the name label.
-- pronounced as "Music Radioactive"
There's a number of way to address the inconsistency and provide guidance, but here's two that I think are most reasonable:
- GNOME's nightly app icon is visually very strong that makes the distinction between a stable and development versions very clear, using cues from construction to shout "warning, bad things might happen here". Provide a hint to the screenreader (in the desktop file or such) so that the visual distinction can be carried by the icon and the label estate can be used for the name itself, where we are already quite constrained.
- Provide a visual hint such as an orange dot that the screen reader would also explicitly know how to describe as "development version".
Edited by Jakub Steiner