[Zope-PTK] Vote: rename toolbox?
Tres Seaver
tseaver@palladion.com
Sun, 06 Aug 2000 11:55:45 -0400
Shane Hathaway wrote:
>
> PTK gurus,
>
> There's a name clash now between "Portal Toolkit", "tool" (those new
> tool objects we've been talking about), and "toolbox" (the list of
> actions a user can perform in a given context.)
>
> Portal Toolkit will soon consist of a set of "tools". This is quite
> logical and I think the name should stay. But the "toolbox" could be
> called simply "actions". Instead of the portal_toolbox tool, we'll
> have the portal_actions tool. The default actions will be configurable
> just by visiting the portal_actions object in the management interface.
>
> Reply "+1" if you agree to rename "toolbox" to "actions". PTK will no
> longer make any mention of a "toolbox".
> Reply "-1" if you disagree. (Keep in mind that toolbox and toolkit
> could translate to the same word in some languages--ouch!)
>
> The problem became apparent when I created the "ToolboxTool" class:
> it's a portal tool that lists all toolbox actions, rather than the
> intuitive meaning of a tool that goes in a toolbox. Ugh.
+1
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