Renaming in sw/

Jim Cobley jimc at priorycomputers.com
Thu May 7 04:34:34 PDT 2015


I really have an aversion to the use of the word "Floater" as this has 
lavatorial connotations in most of the English speaking world and leaves 
a bit of a bad taste!

On 07/05/15 12:31, Noel Grandin wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
>> I know what a fly is, those are the frames around which text gets
>> wrapped in Writer. SwFlyFrm even contains a doxygen comment saying the
>> same. I'm not convinced that "floater" would be any clearer than "fly",
>> though. Especially as we already have a number of floater in different
>> contexts, like MediaFloater or the fontwork Floaters. Possibly let's
>> separate such more intrusive renaming from the trivial ones you
>> mentioned yourself.
>
> How about SwFlowFrame ? Because the text  "flows" around it.
>
> Although I have no real problem with "Fly", at least it is reasonably unique.
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