[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Lets rename Layout?

[Scott, W Alan]

Seems silly to add that much work, and stir-age to the code, if we can word smith around the issue.

How about Save/ Load Renderview Size, or Save/Load Window drawable Size?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cory Quammen [mailto:cory.quammen at kitware.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 1:48 PM
> To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> Cc: Ayachit, Utkarsh (External Contacts) <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>;
> paraview-developers at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Lets rename Layout?
> 
> My 2 cents:
> 
> If we want to quickly resolve the ambiguity between render view layouts and
> window layouts, how about we rename "Window Layout" to "Window
> Arrangement"? That would be simpler from an implementation perspective,
> and would solve the immediate confusion in the overloaded term "layout".
> 
> I agree that "Layout" is not the greatest noun for a particular layout of render
> windows. However, Layout is deeply embedded in the source code, including
> Python traces (see paraview.simple functions GetLayout(), CreateLayout(),
> GetViewsInLayout(), etc.). If we renamed render view layouts to "canvases"
> or some other term, I would like to make the corresponding change in the
> source code as well.This isn't too hard, but requires taking steps to ensure
> backwards compatibility, update tests, and so on.... it's a little bigger fish to
> fry.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cory
> 
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
> > My two favorites, so far, in order, are
> >
> > * Canvas
> > * View Pane
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 2:37 PM
> >> To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> >> Cc: paraview-developers at paraview.org
> >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] Lets rename Layout?
> >>
> >> Another option:
> >>
> >> * View Pane
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> wrote:
> >> > Ken and I have been trying to figure out nomenclature for the File/
> >> > Load Window Layout.  This is confusing with “Layout”.  We have
> >> > concluded that “Layout” is the wrong name for the tab that shows at
> >> > the upper left of the 3d window.  How about we rename it?  Here
> >> > were
> >> some ideas Ken came up with:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > View Group  (nah)
> >> >
> >> > View Tab (nah)
> >> >
> >> > Multi-View (better)
> >> >
> >> > Canvas (My favorite)
> >> >
> >> > View Region (probably not).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thoughts?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Alan
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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