Re: [STUMP] additions to the info manual

[David Bjergaard]

Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Ben Spencer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>>   A group is usually referred to as a "desktop" or "workspace" in other
>>>   window managers.
>>
>> I'm tempted to suggest we should change this terminology to match
>> everyone else.  The term 'group' is taken from screen, but it doesn't
>> exactly match the functionality there, and it leads to madness like
>> this: https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/blob/master/window.lisp#L133-134
>
> Not my call, obviously, but it would get my vote...
>
I just wanted to say that while I agree with everything above, I am
adamantly against changing the name and terminology in the code.  I'm
not prepared to handle all of the bugs that could be potentially
introduced even if it was a simple search and replace operation.  

I believe that it will be sufficient to make sure that the distinction
is made obvious early in the documentation.  We deal with crufty
terminology all the time in other software systems (frames vs. windows
in emacs for instance).  

Cheers,

    Dave