Rename VSCodium to Codium

[stripedpajamas]

Closes #193

Additional actions required to merge:

• update Azure release pipeline glob pattern (currently is set to VS*)

Will not be merging until I've confirmed the binaries build and look good on my branch (releases, builds)

[stripedpajamas]

I think this PR takes it a bit too far; the settings/config folders were fresh, so when I downloaded + installed Codium from my branch, it had none of my modified settings / keymaps. I am on a Mac, so this is because Library / Application Support / VSCodium ≠ Library / Application Support / Codium.

On the other hand, Visual Studio Code uses Library / Application Support / Code, which would imply we should move forward with using Codium here as well. The downside is it's a very disruptive change to existing users.

[thisiskeithb]

Adding a note about the change/where to move settings on the releases page should suffice.

And honestly, if someone went through all the effort to install VSCodium instead of VSCode, they should be able to handle moving settings over 🙂

[janniks]

👋 wanted to check in here - is there something I could help out with?

[stripedpajamas]

Sorry for the huge delay on this everyone. I don't have much time for VSCodium work these days.

This PR can be merged after conflicts are resolved and after I (or anyone) has done some additional testing around the auto-update experience. Specifically I'm wondering what happens if the next release is cut as Codium; do users with autoupdate enabled (such as myself) automatically download + install it? If so, my suspicion is we'll see a dozen new issues logged because "after update all my settings/themes disappeared" (despite any notes we may put on the Releases page).

I'd rather think through some ways to avoid that disruption if possible. If there's no way around it, I'll opt for clear documentation around what to do (copy settings/themes to new dir) and noisy messaging on the Releases page and README.

[guruathwal]

Instead of putting any note/Instruction anywhere, will it not be better to show a data migration progress and move the data from old directories(if found) to new ones or rename the old ones?

[LRNZ09]

@stripedpajamas any news on this PR?

[jacksongoode]

Any plan on moving this forward?

[drupol]

Conflicts needs to be fixed. As @stripedpajamas doesn't have time to invest in this anymore, maybe it would be better to create another PR with people willing to fix this?

[daiyam]

@stripedpajamas Do you want me to make the changes?

[stripedpajamas]

@daiyam since this is a big disruptive change, I think it would be better to first introduce a way for non-Github-users to be notified of "big disruptive changes", e.g. #599 . My idea is that if we sideload VSCodium changelogs into the existing release notes from MS, we could make this change and provide the notification + workarounds / next steps to the users that way. Thoughts ?

[daiyam]

@stripedpajamas I agree 100%. To customize the welcome page is a good idea.
Also, we would need an action plan to rename or migrate the app in the different app stores for linux, macos or windows...

[daiyam]

We can also add a modal (with vscode.window.showWarningMessage) to show a message that the app will be renamed.

[daiyam]

Here a list of app stores where you can find VSCodium. It would be good if we could automate the publication.

Linux

Name	URL	Maintainer	Renameable	Source
Snap	https://snapcraft.io/	https://github.com/popey		https://github.com/snapcrafters/codium
Deb	https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/	https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty	https://wiki.debian.org/RenamingPackages
RPM	https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/	https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty	https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrade_paths_%E2%80%94_renaming_or_splitting_packages
Nix				https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode
Arch	https://aur.archlinux.org/	sperg512		https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vscodium-bin/
Flatpak	https://flathub.org/home			https://github.com/flathub/com.vscodium.codium
AppImage				https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/VSCodium-AppImage-Recipe.yml

macOS

Name	URL	Maintainer	Renameable	Source
Homebrew	https://brew.sh/		https://docs.brew.sh/Rename-A-Formula	https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/vscodium.rb

Windows

Name	URL	Maintainer	Renameable	Source
winget	https://winget.run/			https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/v/VSCodium/VSCodium
Chocolatey	https://chocolatey.org/	https://community.chocolatey.org/profiles/Thilas		https://github.com/Thilas/chocolatey-packages/tree/master/vscodium
Scoop	https://scoop.sh/	https://github.com/Ash258		https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/blob/master/bucket/vscodium.json

[stripedpajamas]

I think wherever something is named "vscode" we can leave ours as "vscodium" (are there any such examples?), and wherever something is named "code" we will have "codium" (e.g. snapcraft, the local binary). For places where Microsoft's name is "visual studio code", I'm not sure what ours should be, e.g. brew: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/visual-studio-code, but I would lean towards vscodium here to be "nearby" the MS version. Discussion welcome.

Also I think the RPM/DEB part is already done (at least the README is instructing to install codium -- https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/).

[GitMensch]

Discussion welcome.

No discussion here, I just want to say I totally agree with:

• the name change as outlined
• the option to add to / replace the welcome page (replace because in the past there often was showcasing for "Visual Studio Code"-only extensions and proprietary "services" [and I often get asked why this does not works and if people should install vscode instead])

[coxackie]

... still?

[GitMensch]

@daiyam Can you work on automated adjusting of the welcome page and the option to one-time raise an information on update?

This would allow to "get the news out". I suggest to postpone the actual name change to a specific version up-front which is not "too short" so people have a chance to see it even when they don't open VSCodium/update it very regularly. Maybe specifying "executable name will be changed to codium in version 1.68 (and then push the changes on current master again to have it ready) until 1.67, so we're quite sure that 1.68 should have no issue (or all that one main version before/later).

[paulcarroty]

@GitMensch I think it's too late. The project is very well known to change his name. It feels like renaming 'ABBA' to 'BBA'.

executable name will be changed to codium

Done.

[GitMensch]

The project is very well known to change his name. It feels like renaming 'ABBA' to 'BBA'.

I'm not sure about "too late" actually and am in favor of dropping the "VS" prefix.
If we find "yes, that's too late", then this issue should be closed.

We may could also use the (currently not available) adjusted welcome page and extra info message to point to a new survey to receive user feedback - without such information to the users it doesn't make any sense to create a survey issue again.

executable name will be changed to codium

Done.

Ah, that's true for any environment but Win32 I guess (there are codium and codium.bat under "bin", but the executable is still named VSCodium.exe) - if this is only different on Win32 then I definitely would suggest to adjust that.

[trymeouteh]

I am in favor of renaming the app to codium

[wallrik]

When GitHub announced they're killing off Atom I started looking into VSCode and found this project instead. When can this change be implemented? 😇 From what I've read here there doesn't really seem to be any reason not to do it?

As a new user I was confused why it was named Visual Studio Codium.

[ioquatix]

I also agree with changing the name, and I want to add another point, "VS" meaning "Visual Studio" is, from what I can tell, a trademark of Microsoft. So even more reason to distance from that convention.

[ghost]

@ioquatix I agree. "VSCodium" has probably the VS trademarked by MS.

[ghost]

@stripedpajamas any news on this PR?

This is an inactive PR, therefore it's not really news now.

[cntrump]

but Codium.com is registed.

[Alex313031]

@stripedpajamas @thisiskeithb @janniks @guruathwal @LRNZ09 I have made a fork, which has four differences from here.

1. Name is changed to just Codium
2. Compiler optimizations for node gyp (which I might make a PR on)
3. Icon is the default one from code-oss, which I think looks better than vscode or vscodium
4. Added a new patch for the welcome page to have correct branding (which I might also make a PR on)

https://github.com/Alex313031/codium

I make builds for Linux and Windows

[GitMensch]

@stripedpajamas @thisiskeithb @janniks @guruathwal @LRNZ09 I have made a fork, which has four differences from here.

1. Name is changed to just Codium

2. Compiler optimizations for node gyp (which I might make a PR on)

3. Icon is the default one from code-oss, which I think looks better than vscode or vscodium

4. Added a new patch for the welcome page to have correct branding (which I might also make a PR on)

https://github.com/Alex313031/codium

Please make separate PRs for 1, 2 and 4 and outline a bit more in the README where the differences are (I suggest to do this relative at the top).

[daiyam]

Please make separate PRs for 1, 2 and 4 and outline a bit more in the README where the differences are (I suggest to do this relative at the top).

I don't think 1 isn't necessary since it's his fork name.

Personally, while we don't have any trademark or anything on codium, I don't think it's fair or creative to name a fork just codium. (PS: on Linux, VSCodium binary is also named codium, so there will be conflict when both are installed...)

[Alex313031]

@GitMensch @daiyam Ok will do. Also, no it wont conflict, because I made my codium fork install into a different dir, use a different user profile folder, and a different GUID (on windows) to prevent exactly this and so that vscode, vscodium, and codium could all be installed on the same system without interfering with each other.

[jacksongoode]

I really hope this renaming can happen - it's weird to think that an OSS fork has "Visual Studio" prefixed to its name.

[mcochranca]

love how lightweight webdev has become. The future is bright lol /s.