To me, it's a thing that allows you to "shuffle those sections around" ...
Portlet Shuffler? Section Shuffler? That was my two cents... obviously I like the word "shuffle" :) On 14-Feb-08, at 11:06 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote: > > On 14-Feb-08, at 10:40 AM, Antranig Basman wrote: > >> I think the whole association of the component with "portlets" at all >> is somewhat unfortunate and I would like to see it banished from the >> code. > > I agree wholeheartedly. > >> My suggestion is calling it the "Cellular Layout Manager", to go >> alongside the "List" and "Grid" layout managers. > > Hm... 'cellular' sounds a bit biological to me :-) > >> .. we could then >> rename "Column" wherever it occurs in the code to "Cell" and then >> also rid ourselves of this persistent "up/down" "left/right" >> coupling (although perhaps it is helpful to coders when visualising >> what they are writing). > > Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean when you say "up/down left/ > right coupling" (which is entirely possible!) I don't think it's > reasonable to try and get rid of it. A prime purpose of this code is > to provide keyboard accessibility, and the keyboard functionality is > based on up/down and left/right movements. > > Am I misunderstanding you? > >> The name "cell" isn't great since it is possibly open to confusion >> with the "individual" cells which may be moved around. > > It also may be confused with table cells, which is inaccurate in that > it is too restrictive. > >> If we keep talking of this in terms of portlets, the virtually >> limitless potential of this new component I fear may be >> perpetually obscured :P > > Agreed. > > -- > Anastasia Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Software Designer, Fluid Project fluidproject.org > Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto > > _______________________________________________ > fluid-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-talk _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list fluid-work@fluidproject.org http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
