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Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUI
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Noam Postavsky |
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Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs |
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Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:46:39 -0400 |
On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 09:40, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> And who knows what the "terminology du jour" will be in 10 years. This
> industry is currently very much fad-driven.
The term "window" has been pretty long-lived.
> So imagine Emacs (painfully) changes window -> pane and frame -> window,
> and the dominant technology talks about "trays" and "vanes". Or something.
That would still be better, because we wouldn't have the Emacs-window
vs Other-Gui-window meaning conflict.
Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs, Emanuel Berg, 2019/07/31