[GRASS-dev] some impressions on the wx interface

Helena Mitasova hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu
Sat Sep 12 13:31:24 EDT 2009


On Sep 12, 2009, at 4:04 AM, Robert Szczepanek wrote:

> Michael Barton pisze:
>>
>>
>> On Sep 11, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Hamish wrote:
>>
>>> Any objections to renaming the mini-menu to "Add decoration" from
>>> "Add overlay"?   "Overlay" might be confused with raster overlays,
>>> and is otherwise not very clear in its meaning.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hamish
>>
>> Can anyone think of another term than overlay (I understand the  
>> possible
>> confusion) and decoration (is a scale really a "decoration"?). Is
>> decoration the correct cartographic term? Is there another?
>>
>> Michael
>
> Add (map) description?

I tried to find a better term (overlay and decorations are really  
bad) - here are
some terms commonly used for legend, scale, title, autor etc.:

add map description
add map elements
add map components

I am not sure which one is the best,

Helena

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