On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 21:22 +0200, Vincent Geddes wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 17:48 +0100, Michael Natterer wrote: > > Also, subclasses should probably append their name, not prepend it: > > > > GFilterOutputStream -> GIOOutputStreamFilter > > GUnixOutputStream -> GIOOutputStreamUnix > > ... > > > > This makes the file and inheritence structure much clearer and would > > be consistent with stuff we already have (e.g. GtkTreeModelFilter, > > GtkTreeModelSort). > > Looking over the GTK+ classes, it seems like the TreeView classes are > the odd ones out. Most classes seem to follow the naming pattern in gio, > examples being GtkToggleButton, GtkCheckMenuItem, GtkAccelLabel, > GtkAboutDialog, etc. > > Besides, the proposed naming in the review does go against the naming > convention set by Smalltalk, Java, C#, et al; and if implemented will > probably confuse users coming to GTK+ from those worlds.
It's not only different from the naming conventions in those programming languages, it's also different from plain English, as far as I can tell as a non-native speaker. Jürg _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list