[Qgis-developer] new symbology terminology

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Carson

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Carson Farmer <carson.farmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Martin,
>
>> The categorized renderer is intended to be a renderer for discrete
>> values - categories - where the values do not refer to quantities.
>> Categorized symbol renderer has basically the same semantics the
>> Unique symbol renderer from old symbology. I'm not an experienced
>> cartographer and I've started to use the 'Categorized' name, because
>> I've found it more intuitive than 'Unique symbol' renderer - but I'm
>> not a native speaker and I can be wrong.
> Now that you've explained it, I see your logic, though I still think
> that it is perhaps not intuitive. While the categorised renderer
> expects categorised data, it does not categorise the data itself, and
> I think this is where the confusion lies for me. You are naming the
> renderers based on the expected input data, and I am expecting the
> renderers to be named based on what they do (which might not be the
> best way to think!). I have just had a look at what some other
> proprietary GIS do, and in fact what you have is probably closer to
> what they have, so I may be wrong. However, to clear things up, it
> might be nice to label the renders as 'Discrete data renderer' and
> 'Continuous data renderer'...?

If there are no objections against renaming the renderers, feel free
to rename them.

I'm not sure what to do with names of classes of the renderers in
source code, I would prefer to keep them as they are (and optionally
rename them in qgis 2.0).

Martin