[GRASS-dev] some impressions on the wx interface

Michael Barton Michael.Barton at asu.edu
Sat Sep 12 17:36:30 EDT 2009



On Sep 12, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Helena Mitasova wrote:

>
> 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

Of all of these, I like "map elements" best so far.

Michael

>
>>
>> Robert
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