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 > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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