DuckDuckGo

[landroniMember]

Two issues with the current DDG in F-Droid:
- DDG should be spelled collapsed: “DuckDuckGo”, and not like this “Duck Duck Go”
- Since DDG recently released its official Android Client [1] (it doesn’t seem open source [2], although I’ve sent them a request), it would be wise to add an ‘unofficial’ tag to ddg-android as provided by F-Droid. The problem is that since both clients use the exact same name in GMarket and F-Droid, it creates unnecessary confusion.

[1] https://market.android.com/details?id=com.duckduckgo.mobile.android&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kdWNrZHVja2dvLm1vYmlsZS5hbmRyb2lkIl0.
[2] http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216419-apps

[hansemilMember]

Please contact the author of the app with these suggestions, or perhaps even make a patch yourself.

Contact information and source is available at https://github.com/johanhil/ddg-android

[landroniMember]

Done [1]. Is there a way to close tickets on the forum? Or mark as done?

[1] https://github.com/johanhil/ddg-android/issues/2

[CiaranGMember]

I updated our summary and description:

https://gitorious.org/f-droid/fdroidserver/commit/0966ca73a805fa690d790a8d11163d17f003a936

As noted already though, what the application decides to call itself is part of its source code, and I will leave that up to the developer. I don’t think there’s a need to worry about confusion between this FOSS app and the “official” proprietary one, since the latter won’t be here.

[landroniMember]

Thanks for looking into this. It would be nice if the description also explained that this isn’t the official DDG client.

Personally I found confusing that I could install simultaneously DDG v0.1 and v1.9, from F-Droid and Market respectively, without one updating the other. Moreover, it was confusing that the two DDG “versions” had wildly different interfaces when launched. Then I found it confusing that the F-Droid provided version was so out-dated (originally I wanted to ask F-Droid devels to update DDG), but when I checked the source code it featured the “older” v0.1 tag. At that point I was lost.

Then I thought that perhaps the two were actually different programmes, and that perhaps DDG issued an official client on the Market. That hunch proved right; but the deduction process was somewhat time-consuming and not particularly straightforward.

Anyways, I registered my complaint with the open-source DDG.

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