[Qgis-developer] Renaming SEXTANTE

[Filipe Dias]

Hi,
Many people refer to "Vector" and "Raster" tools as Ftools and GDAL.
Sextante, in my opinion, is not different, so I dont see why we should
change anything. The Sextante menu is called "Analysis" which makes sense.
And Sextante toolbox seems to be a good name, as well as Sextante Modeler.

Additionally, Sextante is a recognizable name for gvsig and Arcgis users.
Considering that we can expect that a lot more users are going to start
using QGIS after 2.0 is released, it would make sense the keep the Sextante
naming

Best regards
F.


On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> After much thinking and considering some suggestions, I think it would
> be a good idea to remove the SEXTANTE branding, and just have
> everything with a more descriptive name, such as "geoanalysis",
> "processing", or something like that. In the long-term, that will help
> to integrate the analysis framework into QGIS,and help users locate
> it.
>
> It shouldn't be more difficult than just replacing string ocurrences,
> but before doing such a big (and potentially troublesome) change, I
> would like to hear the opinion you guys have about this (is it a good
> idea? what name should we use instead of "sextante" for packages and
> modules? any good refactoring tool that you recommend?,etc)
>
> I am going to be out of office next week, so I might not read my email
> everyday, but it would be great to hear what you think about it. Once
> I am back, I will proceed to change it,
>
> I discussed it briefly with Tim and Paolo, who agreed on this, so I
> assumme this is not incompatible with the API freeze and the release
> plan that we have, but if anyone thinks this shouldn't be done now,
> please say it. I personally think that it would be good to have it in
> 2.0, so all analysis stuff is called "analysis" (or whatever) and not
> with a name that (although I like and feel very identified with it)
> for most people doesn't make much sense...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Victor
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