-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Blocher [mailto:verbalshadow@...400...] Sent: dinsdag 6 november 2007 2:07 To: bulia byak Cc: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan); inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Names of LPEs
Instead of pattern along path why not call it Bend Object or Object along Path if we want to be verbose. It is less confusing and genric enough to encapulate groups, shapes, patterns, etc..
Bend Path and Bend Object seem to be good names for the effects to me.
I'm afraid again I've been unclear. The current 'pattern along path' can only bend single paths along paths. The current 'Bend path' can (in principle without too much effort) bend objects.
So perhaps we should name the 'Bend path' effect just 'Bend' ?
Please note that the naming and user understanding is probably needed for stacking. When effects are stacked, 'pattern along path' cannot bend the output of the effect before it. It uses that output as 'skeletal strokes'. Perhaps I should rename the p.a.p. effect to skeletal strokes. You draw some paths, and then when you want to 'stroke' those paths with something complicated, you should use p.a.p. When you want to bend the paths you have drawn, you should use 'bend path'. Or just 'bend'. In a stack, 'bend' *does* bend the output of the effect before it.
Effect #1 proposed names: 'pattern along path' 'skeletal strokes' 'stroke with path' <= my choice at this moment...
Effect #2 proposed names: 'path along path' 'bend path' 'bend object' 'bend' <= my choice at this moment
'subcurve stitching' => rename to 'stitch subcurves'
I am trying to end up with somewhat of a 'rule' for naming effects. The above choices reflect the following useage: Draw 2 subpaths and 'stitch [the result's] subcurves'. Then 'stroke [the result] with path'. And then 'bend [the result]'. A user can think: What would I like to do? I'd like to ('bend','stroke','stitch') my shape ('', 'with path', 'subcurves'). :-) Probably too much of idealistic approach?
Cheers, Johan