Piik/docs/reference/naming.md

Naming And Copy

This is the naming convention for new and changed Piik code, UI and packaging. Use the brand for people and predictable lowercase identifiers for tools.

Voice And Terminology

Use the same role and action vocabulary in the App, Browser, website and guides. Role labels describe permission; a person's chosen nickname stays unchanged.

Meaning	English	Chinese
Person sharing and controlling the room	Host	房主
Person watching	Viewer	观众
Product capability	Screen sharing	屏幕共享
Start sending a chosen screen/window	Start sharing	开始分享
Enter another person's room	Join a room	加入房间
Site-wide access secret	Site passphrase	站点口令
Room-specific access secret	Room password	房间密码

Write each language for its own audience. Chinese headings and welcomes may sound like friends inviting each other: “叫朋友来一起看。” or “沙发给你留着呢。” Do not translate English sentence structure or possessive screen metaphors literally (“和朋友一起看你的屏幕”). Use familiar Chinese verbs and a light touch; forced memes, baby talk and repeated slogans quickly become tiring.

The brand line is “Share the good stuff.” in English and “来，看点好康的。” in Chinese. Display the Chinese headline on two lines: “来，看点” / “好康的。” Keep metadata and ordinary prose as the continuous sentence.

Keep the public brand line consistent in the homepage, film ending and README opening, beside a plain screen-sharing description. Scene titles should name the action or benefit; do not turn every section into another slogan. Games, drawings, photos and movie nights show the range of screen sharing without implying voice chat, shared input or synchronized playback controls. Each locale must read naturally as a complete sequence, without depending on a pun from the other language.

Set the register by the reader's task:

Surface	Register
Website	Light, everyday language in introductions and illustration captions; keep the current restraint
README	A friendly introduction, followed by direct explanations of features, limits and first steps
Documentation index	Clear topic names and short descriptions that help readers choose a guide
Deployment, configuration and maintenance guides	Formal, precise instructions: prerequisites, actions, expected results and recovery steps

Formal means clear and factual, not bureaucratic. Keep detailed procedures free of jokes and promotional slogans; do not carry the website's playful headings into technical instructions.

State the requirement, action or result directly. Omit negative comparisons that answer an abandoned design or an internal discussion: “解压后运行” is enough; listing the runtimes a packaged App does not require adds no useful next step. Include an exclusion only when it resolves a real reader choice or limitation.

Write tutorials from an explicit starting point: what the reader needs, which visible action to take, and what appears next. Distinguish watching an invitation, creating an App room, using an existing site, and deploying a server. Say where the site or download comes from; “follow the prompts” cannot stand in for a missing prerequisite. Mark passwords and audio options as conditional when they are optional. Keep App and Server package names distinguishable at download links. Public platform notes say what has been tested and invite useful feedback; internal phrases such as “this phase's acceptance target” belong in status.

Use progressive disclosure on the website and in the film:

Information layer	Reader's question	Content
First view: navigation, headings, feature cards, film titles	What does it do, how do I start, what does it cost?	Familiar actions and concrete benefits: “开箱即用”, “免费使用”, “朋友点开就能看”
Expanded details, supporting text and FAQ answers	Will this work for me, and why?	Platform/network conditions, explained technical terms and links to the relevant guide
README, wiki and operational guides	How do I configure, verify or troubleshoot it?	Exact action names, prerequisites, commands, configuration and evidence limits

The layer follows the reader's task, not font size alone. Keep material costs, availability and limitations beside the claim or action they qualify; do not hide them behind a collapse. Never promote an implementation mechanism such as encoding reuse or STUN as an unexplained headline. Explain technical terms on first use even in detailed documentation. Plain wording must preserve the original bounds: “开箱即用” does not promise offline use or guaranteed connection, and reduced repeated work does not establish a universal CPU saving. Lead performance copy with the user benefit (low latency, efficient sharing), then explain the supporting mechanism and its conditions. “Lowest latency”, “zero delay” and comparative resource savings require matching measurements; an architectural preference alone does not establish a benchmark result.

Write Chinese and English headings independently. Break lines at complete phrases, never inside a short action such as “画上两笔”. A decorative number must have an adjacent meaning/unit (“使用费用 0 元”), and its label must remain visible in both languages and at the smallest supported width. Check the actual rendered headline after rotation and animation settle: all meaningful words need room inside the frame. Oversized background lettering may crop; primary copy may not.

Download/availability labels, platform requirements, instructions, permission prompts, status and errors stay plain and specific. Use the exact visible action names in tutorials; a playful caption never replaces “Download”, “Join a room” or a platform/connection limitation. Explain what happened, what the user can do next, and any real limitation. Jokes belong in the welcome or illustration caption. Do not soften a failure into a joke, invent connection progress or promise guaranteed connectivity or absolute privacy. Screen sharing includes games, creative work and showing a useful discovery.

Operational pages omit introductory sentences that repeat their controls. Helper text should explain a meaningful choice or prevent an error.

Use short, contextual references in opening lines and illustration reactions. A familiar expression may work when its ordinary meaning still makes sense to someone who does not recognize it. Keep each language independent and avoid long dialogue, borrowed brand slogans or a stream of unrelated memes. Match a celebration to a visible successful action; it must not precede the result. Keep the small bilingual set local, without a quotation service. The visual language owns where these lines appear.

Product And Tool Names

Surface	Convention	Example
Product and repository	Piik	TNTcraftHIM/Piik
Standalone application	Piik App	Window title, documentation, shortcuts
Hosted service in prose	Piik Server	Deployment instructions
Executables and command directories	Lowercase, hyphen-separated	piik-app[.exe], piik-server[.exe], cmd/piik-app
Native capture executable	Lowercase component name	piik-capture[.exe]
Download archives	Lowercase, target and revision suffix	piik-app-windows-amd64-<revision>.tar.gz
Package/build directory names	Lowercase and target suffix	piik-app-windows-amd64
macOS application bundle	Display name, standard extension	Piik App.app
Linux desktop entry	Lowercase file/Exec, display Name	piik-app.desktop, Exec=piik-app, Name=Piik App
Package and service identifiers	Lowercase	npm piik, systemd piik.service, tv.piik.app
Environment variables	Uppercase snake case	PIIK_DEBUG, PIIK_LOG_DIR
Go module path	Exact repository spelling	github.com/TNTcraftHIM/Piik

Use the same lowercase binary names across platforms for predictable commands. Piik App.app is the user-facing macOS bundle. The packager owns archive contents and directory layout. Keep platform/standard spellings such as Info.plist, LICENSE, README.md and REVISION. Do not change third-party names or notices to fit this table. Immutable measurement records keep the paths and hashes of their measured revision; they are evidence rather than current command examples.

Code ownership and vocabulary

The engineering module map owns directory responsibilities. HTTP/WebSocket clients, signaling clientId, protocol clients and similar connection roles remain client; they do not name the standalone App.

• Follow each language's semantics: lowercase Go packages, exported PascalCase and unexported camelCase; existing TypeScript component/type conventions. Brand casing must not change visibility or create unnecessary name prefixes.

Renaming the standalone product is not a protocol or persistence change. Keep discovery, wire and stored identifiers at their current contracts. Their change rules belong to versioning; do not add aliases or dual readers merely for a display rename.

Basis

Content layering reviewed 2026-09-12: NN/g's progressive disclosure defers secondary detail while preserving the primary task; GOV.UK's clear-language guidance keeps specialist content understandable. The layer assignments and Chinese examples above are Piik's application of those principles. NN/g's microcopy guidance puts clarity before concision and character; this also guides the balance between Piik's playful introductions and factual instructions.

Reviewed 2026-09-10. Desktop standards explicitly separate display names from executable identifiers; lowercase executable names are our portability convention.

• freedesktop desktop entries: Name, Exec, TryExec and Icon are distinct fields.
• Apple bundle keys: CFBundleDisplayName and CFBundleExecutable have different responsibilities.
• Syncthing desktop entry: a mature cross-platform example of display branding and lowercase commands.
• Effective Go naming: package and identifier casing carries language conventions and visibility semantics.