Re: renaming some classes and using the octave namespace in the GUI

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 02/08/2018 12:00 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 02/08/2018 12:43 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure about the "browser" name change.  I prefer the names 
> > match what they are derived from.  This is sort of how Qt is set up, 
> > e.g., here's one hierarchy of inheritance:
> >
> > QAbstractButton
> > QPushButton
> > QCommandLinkButton
>
> This maybe makes sense for the fairly generic sort of widgets that Qt 
> provides.  But what I'm talking about are Octave objects.  The history 
> browser will always be something that allows users to examine the 
> command history, but it may not always be derived from the QtDockWidget 
> object.  Having that in the name doesn't make sense to me.  It's like 
> Hungarian notation.  It seems like it might be a good idea until you 
> decide to change the type of a variable.
>
> We could use another name than browser but I don't want to append 
> DockWidget just because it currently happens to be implemented using a 
> QtDockWidget object.

OK, it sounds like we are referring to two different things.  My mind is 
on the class code at the moment.

Dan