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Re: Name of GUI Window: Preferences or Settings?
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Torsten |
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Re: Name of GUI Window: Preferences or Settings? |
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Thu, 24 May 2018 17:21:51 +0200 |
On 24.05.2018 05:22, Rik wrote:
> 5/23/18
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> Currently there is a menu option Edit->Preferences. However, this option
> opens up a window with the title Settings. Octave should make these two
> things consistent, and there is a bug report about this already (bug
> #53616). Does anybody have a good line of reasoning for whether we should
> use "Preferences" or "Settings"?
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> --Rik
IMHO, in most programs the menu entry and the dialog is called
"preferences". I vote for going this way, too, but without changing all
internal variable names, classes and files.
Torsten