Alan Horkan wrote:
If IS doesn't work for you (although I don't know why not, for informal speech) then I'll try to remember to do a search/replace before I send.
On one hand I am a bit of a language snob, and I dislike acronyms. I've had to deal with technical people who are no smarter than I am but insist on using obscure jargon, confusing their audience and making things difficult for everyone one else.
I am a language snob (I'm a writer,) which is why I try especially hard not to be when it doesn't matter, but...
"If you cannot blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bull****!"
If English is not your first language I appreciate any efforts mades as $PERSONs ability to write English is usually better than my ability to write $LANGUAGE but that only makes it all the more important for the rest of us to try and be as clear as possible.
I know it seems pedantic (and it is) but I can justify it. It is important to thinks of the Search Engines, think of marketing Inkscape. "IS" is far too common a word to register on search engines whereas Ink or Inkscape are very disctinctive words and Inkscape is a very strong brand.
...this is a good explanation of why it matters. Point taken. Will do.
I don't think terminology is off topic, though. What about the windows/dialog/palette debate in the Wiki page? What should the various windows be called. For a refresher of the debate:
Palettes
Instead of palettes, Inkscape has dialogs that can be called up by various commands through which the artist communicates with the program. Dialogs function similarly to palettes. (In Windows, they do not stay on top of the Document window; this is a known problem.) You can toggle visibility of all active dialogs with F12 key.
--- These are traditionally called dialogs. I don't see a reason to rename them. Just "windows" is too vague. --bb --- You're going to have to duke this out with Cedric (the head documentor guy) et al. I got it from him, the developers I was chatting with on IRC the other night didn't have a problem with it as far as I know, and it seems to make sense. A dialog requires a response before the command can continue--it's having a dialog (two way interaction) with the user. Everyting else is technically just a window. It's not vague if they have a name, like the Document Preferences window. How is that any more vague than the Document Preferences dialog. Sounds like a stylistic bias. I frankly don't care, as long as it's consistent and I was simply going with what had already been established. See the style guide for more detials. --kw --- "traditionally called dialogs" a tradition from the GIMP. Nothing else in Gnome really has the same kind of widgets as this very specific subset of Dialogs (just as dialogs are a subset of Windows) and what Gnome normally means by Dialogs can be very different so I hope you will consider that using the term Palettes could help reduce ambiguity -- Alan
Anyone care to clarify the issue?
-Kevin Wixson