I just want to be able to say :)

  I've put the struts in my web app,
  now I'm ready to tile it.

Or when people ask me, "what do you do?"

  Oh, I tile web sites...

- Gidado

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rey Francois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:19 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: New name for Components / Extended Templates?
> 
> 
> Cedric,
> 
> Ok thanks, I understand. The reason I asked is because I 
> quite like the word
> "tiles" because of the image of putting tiles together in 
> order to beautify
> a flat surface.
> 
> I think anyway that not many people will use (or think of) the French
> translation, but will use the English word instead, don't you 
> think so? 
> 
> Fr.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cedric Dumoulin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 12 July 2001 15:23
> To: Rey Francois
> Subject: Re: New name for Components / Extended Templates?
> 
> 
> 
>   Hi Rey,
> 
>   In my dictionary there is at least two translations : 'carreau' and
> 'tuiles'.
> The second one have several meaning in French : its first 
> signification is
> the
> same as in English : a tile on a roof. But in slang, "avoir 
> une tuile" or
> "il y
> a une tuile" means to be unlucky, have a problem.
>   It looks like calling a program "bug" ;-)
> 
>     Cedric
> 
> Rey Francois wrote:
> 
> > Cedric,
> >
> > I'm not sure I see what's the bad connotation in French for 'tiles'.
> What's
> > the translation for you in French and what do you mean?
> >
> > Fr.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cedric Dumoulin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 12 July 2001 14:13
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: New name for Components / Extended Templates?
> >
> >   "Tiles" sound nice too, and is in the same way as 
> "Struts", but its
> French
> > translation has a bad connotation.
> >   Among the proposed names, we have :
> >
> >    * viewparts
> >    * viewpieces
> >    * tiles                 (bad connotation in french)
> >    * portlets           (already in used by other projects)
> >    * pieces
> >    * blocks
> >    * snippets
> >    * layouts            (maybe too restrictive)
> >
> >   First ones are my preferred, and I will certainly use "viewparts".
> >   Cedric
> >
> 
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