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Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:11:14 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux)

"Mathias Dahl" <address@hidden> writes:

> I was surprised that of all options, "thumbnails" was used, when the
> arguments from most people suggests "image-dired" would be the best.
> That name gives us both the word "image" which is good for
> identifying what it is about, and the word "dired", which is good
> because it shows it is a kind of extension to Dired. I agree that
> there are some variable and function names that looks a bit goofy
> with "dired" in them twice, but it does not strike me as a big
> problem.

User-accessible variables/options/functions should be fixed to be
non-goofy before the release since it does not make sense doing that
afterwards and carry the respective obsolete-variable baggage around.

Ungoofication of internals can be left until after the release, I
guess.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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