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

[Scott, W Alan]

Let's go with your recommendation of save window arrangement?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cory Quammen [mailto:cory.quammen at kitware.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 3:26 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 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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