[Qgis-developer] Outline/border -> stroke?

[Mathieu Pellerin]

+1 from me.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Following up on one of the points raised by John Hawkison (author of
> the famous "my first weekend with QGIS" email), I'd like to raise
> discussion about renaming all use of outline/border throughout QGIS to
> "stroke".
>
> I've been thinking about this and I'm personally in favour.
>
> Why?
> - the terms border, outline and pen are used inconsistently throughout
> QGIS. Eg a polygon fill has an outline, a simple line has a pen.
> - the API is even worse... these terms are thrown around with no
> logical pattern. Even within single classes we mix and match
> - stroke is a good replacement for all these terms. It's also commonly
> used by most design software instead of border or outline.
>
> Any opinions here? Any objections if I made this change?
>
> Nyall
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