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

[Cory Quammen]

My understanding is that "Save/Load Window Layout" refers to the
layout and size of all the Qt windows in ParaView. That includes the
Render View size, but also other things such as whether control panels
are docked, where they are docked, and so on. Hence my suggestion for
"Arrangement". I don't think "Renderview Size" or "Drawable Size"
quite captures the full behavior of what these menu items do.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:12 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
> 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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