https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141452
--- Comment #29 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalr...@gmx.com> --- (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #27) > OMG. Are you trying to make just anything that *you personally* touch in the > bug tracker to become completely unmanageable? Thank you for that lovely ad-hominem attack, I'm sure it greatly strengthens your argument. > Users having problems with any term because of inconsistent use inside the > program is a real bug. You claiming that users have problems with a term > because it doesn't fit the dictionary meaning is just words, until we made > the original term *self-consistent*, and *only after that* any *following* > user confusion could be treated as the term being poor itself. That might sound reasonable on first reading, but it's actually the wrong way to go about it. Suppose that in 75% of the places we refer to paragraphs in LO we would call them "puppies". It is _not_ right to aim for consistently referring to paragraphs as "puppies", and to habituate users to that term, only to later consider whether or not change it into "paragraphs". What we should do is *simultaneously* become consistent with "dictionary meaning" _and_ self-consistent. > The only proper order is as I described ... (sigh...) > So each time you mention a term used inconsistently inside a program, and > try to push your vision of dictionary-based approach, you just do it wrong > personally. It is as if you were to say: "each time you try to push your vision of a dictionary-based approach in which paragraphs are not puppies, you're just wrong personally" > I can imagine that there might be a couple of users who would not recognize > Chapter Numbering as related to their task at first You imagine wrong. Chapter Numbering is about Chapters. If you're writing a document without chapters you are quite likely to assume it is irrelevant to you. I would even guess people are more likely than not to fail to recognize it as relevant, although that's more debatable. > No, not that fact, but your personal preference to do it in the wrong order > (see above). You can keep saying "personal" as many times as you like, but dictionary meaning is not a "personal preference", it is the preference of essentially everyone. Diverging from it always needs special justification. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
