[QGIS-Developer] Rename Style manager to Symbol manager in 3.0?

[Nyall Dawson]

On 3 January 2018 at 11:15, Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com> wrote:
> While writing some tutorials, I have noticed some possible nomenclature
> confusion between Symbols (as compounds of stacked markers, lines, fills
> outlines and color ramps) and Styles (a vector layer symbols and labels
> settings).
>
> We currently have to places we call "Style manager":
> 1. The symbols library that we open by going to Options > Style Manager;
> 2. The Style manager tab in the Layer Styling panel.
>
> I think that the first one should be renamed to "Symbols manager", since it
> exclusively allows to create, edit, group, import and export symbols, and
> not styles.
>
> On the other hand, the Style manager in the Layer Styling panel allows to
> create, manage, load, save as default the layers' styles (unfortunatly it
> does not allow to save styles as we can do in properties).
>
> Any strong opinions about this?

-1

The "style manager" dialog shows non-symbol objects also (specifically
color ramps). And in future, I'd like to see this extended to include
font style presets, preset colors schemes, and other non-symbol
objects.

Nyall