Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs

[tomas]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 09:46:39AM -0400, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> 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.

That's true. Perhaps (?) it was in use already with PARC's Alto, so around
1973.

But I think at that time terminology wasn't so clear. "Windows" were
also of the non-overlapping kind (think tiling window manager these
days), i.e. exactly what Emacs is doing :-)

> > 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.

:-)

Cheers
-- t

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