[Qgis-developer] least surprise, or: which terms should be used?

Camilo Polymeris cpolymeris at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 14:11:50 EDT 2011


> Now we have to think about human interface. One thing is: which terms should be used?
> SAGA uses "grid", whereas QGIS uses "raster". To me, the idea is to have a consistent
> GUI in QGIS, so better use the QGIS terms not to scare off our users, but this could
> be confusing for previous SAGA users. I see this as a minor problema, but I may be wrong.

Replaced "grid" and "gridd" for "raster".
Of course, the question applies to "shapes", "vector"/"vector feature"
and probably other SAGA terms.

Camilo


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