[315] in Athena User Interface
Re: Current thinking on gZephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jul 21 12:30:15 2000
Message-Id: <200007211630.MAA01429@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, Aurora Anne <aurora@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:17:05 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:30:03 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Call them "Group" and "Topic" in gZephyr, and ADD those names to the
> zwrite keyboard interface.
A point of difficulty: zwrite -t is taken. The default zwgc.desc
would also have to be changed to display "Group" instead of "Class"
and "Topic" instead of "Instance".
A coordinated effort to change the terminology might be worth it if we
think the terms "class" and "instance" are so counterintuitive as to
make it much harder to understand what's going on than "group" and
"topic". I just don't want to change it piecemeal in one new client.
The terminology of classes and instances needs to be consistent so
users can agree amongst themselves on where they're going to talk
without undue confusion.
