On Wednesday, April 7, 2004, at 06:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
With the ease of adding extensibility to Rev-based apps (through external media, plugins, etc.) it may be worthwhile exploring ways to make it consistently easy to deliver multi-platform apps in the form so many major vendors do.
This may depend on whether one thinks of something as a drop-in plug-in or an integral part of the app.
For these distinctions I just follow the big boys: in Adobe apps (and others) non-optional/non-user-modifiable elements are in a folder labelled "Components", while in a great many applications optional/user-modifiable elements go in a folder named "Plug-ins" ('cept in Rev and a few others, where it's "Plugins").
A note of interest for curmudgeons: I took a poll here among users to see whether "Plugins" or the more grammatically-correct "Plug-ins" was preferred, and the response was overwhelmingly in favor of "Plugins". I'm generally a go-with-the-crowd-if-it-doesn't-hurt-anyone kinda guy, but since I see more apps with "Plug-ins" than "Plugins" I wonder if it's worth suggesting we revert back to simple good grammer.
A note for really extreme curmudgeons: The whole plug-in craze was popularized by Adobe Photoshop, yet they appear in the UI in a menu named "Filters". This rather raises the question of why they just don't call 'em filters. When I add plug-ins to WebMerge I bypassed the whole "plug-ins" vs. "plugins" issue by naming the folder to match the name of the menu they appear in: "Tools", and in the documentation they are referred to as "plug-in tools".
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
