PipeDream terminology - slot or cell

[Stuart Swales]

As a descendent of View Professional, PipeDream inherited the term 'slot' to describe what most other applications would now call a 'cell'. Indeed, Fireworkz called a cell a 'cell' right from the start in all the user facing code & docs. As a sop to modernity and conformity (as well as being less confusing for the uninitiated) I propose to change the PipeDream usage to be 'cell'. This just affects a few menus in the code, a few dialogue boxes in the resources, and of course the documentation. Your opinions are sought!

[Richard Torrens (lists)]

In article <881ba0f0-783e-4b3d...@googlegroups.com>,
Stuart Swales <stuart.swale...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As a descendent of View Professional, PipeDream inheritEd the term

> 'slot' to describe what most other applications would now call a
> 'cell'. Indeed, Fireworkz called a cell a 'cell' right from the start
> in all the user facing code & docs. As a sop to modernity and
> conformity (as well as being less confusing for the uninitiated) I
> propose to change the PipeDream usage to be 'cell'. This just affects a
> few menus in the code, a few dialogue boxes in the resources, and of
> course the documentation. Your opinions are sought!

I think "slot" and "cell" are synonymous!

So is the change actually worth the work - to be consistent you ae also
going to have to change the instructions.

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Richard Torrens.
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[Stuart Swales]

For old hands like us, they are indeed synonymous. But we have a fresh audience who now get PipeDream bundled with their RPi and may be unnecessarily deterred by the slot-iness of PD. Not much effort...