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

[John W. Eaton]

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.

jwe