I appreciate Jeremy including some guidance on nomenclature <http://tiddlywiki.com/#Adopt%20a%20Titles%20Policy:%5B%5BAdopt%20a%20Titles%20Policy%5D%5D%20%5B%5BNaming%20of%20System%20Tiddlers%5D%5D> in the main TiddlyWiki documentation. Given the changes to TW5 over the last couple of years, though, I'm curious how uers are actually naming their tiddlers — in particular, user-created system tiddlers.
I've been running counter to convention by naming macros and plugins $:/Secret-HQ/macros/mymacro and $:/Secret-HQ/plugins/myplugin. Other typical naming for me includes $:/Secret-HQ/ui/sidebar/mysidebartab and $:/Secret-HQ/stylesheet/thisstyle (though I'd rather switch to /css instead of /stylesheet). This keeps my self-created system tiddlers together in alphabetical listings, but since I tag them all $:/tags/Secret-HQ, I can keep track of them with <<list-links>> macros easily enough. It's nonstandard, though, and it will eventually cause problems if I share any of my content. So I should probably be naming this way, instead: - $:/css/Secret-HQ/thisstyle - $:/macros/Secret-HQ/mymacro - $:/plugins/Secret-HQ/myplugin - $:/ui/Secret-HQ/sidebar/mysidebartab - $:/tags/Secret-HQ Am I right in thinking these names are more standardized and less likely to cause conflicts/confusion if the wind up in someone else's TiddlyWiki somehow? — As a follow-up question: What's up with - $:/tags/Macro - $:/tags/ControlPanel - $:/tags/PageControl - $:/tags/Stylesheet ... and the like? I've reconciled myself to their camelcase, but what was the (maybe purely historical now?) logic behind using these names rather than: - $:/Macro - $:/ControlPanel - $:/PageControl - $:/Stylesheet ... ? Identifying tags *AS* tags in their name seems a little clunky and counterintuitive to me — which could just be me having trouble wrapping my brain around the faux-tree naming structure. Emerson warned that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," but I can't help thinking it would be more elegant to have $:/Macro/Secret-HQ/mymacro tagged $:/Macro and $:/User/Secret-HQ. Maybe that itsn't the best way to go about it, but I *DO* feel TiddlyWiki could benefit from tighter consistency of naming conventions, especially with it being so community- and contributor-oriented. My own nonstandard naming developed out of learning to create different kinds of tiddlers one at a time and not seeing a consistent pattern among the names. (And I suspect others have faced the same issue, as I stil run across plugins named $:/user/plugin/aplugin rather than $:/plugin/user/aplugin.) Is development a little too far down the line to be raising this sort of nitpick? Or is TiddlyWiki5 still fluid enough to benefit from these kinds of questions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/79e41223-7254-4cb7-ad0d-125e1ed32915%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
