signald author here, open to suggestions on that name. As you've noticed, I try to avoid using the word "signal". I do agree that the current name is pretty awkward.
edit: the name for signaldctl. I'm not looking to rename signald at this time
edit: the name for signaldctl. I'm not looking to rename signald at this time
This being said, looking one level up the "bigger picture" chain "signalprotocold" comes to mind - but then "signalprotocoldctl" would give me a small headache :), and I don't know a good solution there. "spdctl" sounds it would be for a DIMM EEPROM configuration (???), "sigprotoctl" sounds nice if somewhat random, and... ugh, naming things is hard.
It also happens that most tlds with beacond are available.
Cursory search on GitHub says you would be pretty alone in your use of beancond as well.
I'm pretty sure that's the way for a better desktop experience with Signal, but I still need to test a few clients. Even before that, with signaldctl and the Python libs alone I already have a way of sending notifications, etc.
So signald and signal-cli in this case.
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Beacon is pretty great =)