Ambiguity of "clip"

[Camille Moulin]

Hi Nicolas,
Le 23/08/2017 à 15:31, alcinos a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I second Harald's answer regarding terminology. That is what we 
> currently use in the UI as well as the code-base.
>
> What do you mean by "trying to debug"?
Just identifying the origin of the problem, not actually coding ;-)
After upgrading to  17.04.3, I had a weird behaviour on a project I am 
working on for quite a time : when resizing certain timeline clips, they 
would shrink to 1 second or so ; that was linked to the fact that the 
matching bin clip was now considered to be shorter than its real length. 
Downgrading wouldn't solve the problem, but clearing cache and 
regenerating proxies seems to have fixed it.

> If you are looking at the code,
I was just looking at the file content to see if I could spot any 
obvious corruption: when mapping the concepts of the file to the 
elements of the UI, it felt strange to have the same name for two 
different things.
It seems that some attempts have been made to solve the problem, a 
timeline clip is sometimes called "item" (cf. Timeline > Resize item 
start|end) but, as it has not been generalized, the situation is now 
suboptimal from an UX pov, with two different names for the same concept 
and one name for two different concepts.

If people feel that it's something that should be addressed, I'd be 
happy to help.

Cheers,
Camille