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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KSpread: document -> workbook
From:       Robert Knight <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-11-16 12:49:55
Message-ID: 13ed09c00511160449n34220eav () mail ! gmail ! com
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> Is this about user-visible string or about source-code rename?

This is about the user-visible string.

The real problem at the moment is that some parts of the UI refer to
"document" others refer to "workbook".  I propose that all the
references to "document" should be changed to "workbook".  To deal
with confusion, all instances of "worksheet" (that is, referring to a
single sheet) should be changed to just "sheet".

> You can't change the file document information, which is indeed something
that worries me on the consistency front.

I don't think that "Document" is not an appropriate term in some
KOffice applications, Krita for example, where the user is working
with an Image, or Karbon, where it is a vector graphic.
OO Calc deals with this problem by simply calling the menu item
"Properties..." that way it doesn't matter whether a workbook,
presentation or word document is being dealt with.  "File ->
Properties" strikes be as more logical than "File -> Document
Information" because 'information' implies that the user cannot change
the settings.

On 11/16/05, Ariya Hidayat <ariya@kde.org> wrote:
> > Robert Knight suggested on IRC that all 'document' should be renamed to
> > 'workbook' in KSpread as this is how it is refered to in Excel.
> > I issued a JJ bug which was done in a few minutes by someone.
> > I checked the patches locally and they are all OK except in File menu,
> > Document Information is coded in /lib/kofficecore so the string cannot be
> > changed to Workbook Information.
>
> Is this about user-visible string or about source-code rename?
>
> For the first case, let's leave it to Document for consistency with
> other application and the source-code (see below).
>
> For the latter, Map should be renamed to Workbook instead. It was
> wrongly derived from the German "mappe" which is the term used in
> German version of Excel. As for object hierarchy, it will be that a
> document contains one workbook, and each workbook has one or more
> (work)sheets. This makes sense as in general a document may contain or
> "hold" other things, e.g. embedded stuff.
>
> You see, if KSpreadDoc becomes "Workbook" in user-visible part but
> still contains an instance of Map (or Workbook, if someone finally
> renames it later on), it be quite confusing.
>
>
> --
> Ariya Hidayat, http://ariya.blogspot.com
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