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

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi, 

+1 for renaming to "stroke". "stroke" is also used as the term in SVG /
PDF specifications - the two most important vector graphic standards. 

As a consequence, we would have related terms, such as "stroke-width",
"stroke-linecap", "stroke-dasharray", etc. See
https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-SVG11-20110816/painting.html#StrokeProperties
 

Another candidate would be renaming everything "transparency" with
"opacity" - but I guess it would be more controversial ;-) And it would
mean that sliders would have to be reversed, as 100% opacity = 0%
transparency. 

Andreas 

On 2017-02-07 09:52, Nyall Dawson 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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