[Sugar-devel] SimpleGraph rename?

[Manuel Quiñones]

2012/4/30 Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
>> <alanjas at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I like a simple name: Charts (no like the singular form)
>>
>> I don't like "Charts".
>>
>> Sugar activities are generally named after nouns: Read, Write, Record,
>> Browse
>>
>> "Chart" is a verb (and is a fine name for this activity), fits with the
>> above.
>> (it is also a noun, but that is not the intended part of speech used here)
>>
>> "Charts" is not a verb.
>>
>> I also agree with dropping the word "Simple" from the title; most
>> sugar activities are simple (in a good way) but there is no need to
>> put this in the name.
>>
>> So yes, using "Chart" or "Graph" (both are verbs, both talk about what
>> the activity does) sounds good to me.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Daniel
>
>
> Wikipedia is helpful for current usage.
> 'Graph' has some more specific technical meanings,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_%28disambiguation%29
>
> than does 'Chart',
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_%28disambiguation%29
>
> So 'Chart' seems most succinct for the current Activity.

Thanks Frederick for the great reference to the human interface
guidelines.  Thanks everyone.

We should go for the ranaming to "Graph" then.

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