GSoC 2011 Idea

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 14:21, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Trever Fischer
> <tdfischer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:33:55 PM Pavel Punegov wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 04:22:12 Trever Fischer wrote:
>>> > * 'MediaEncoder' is a silly name. Just shorten it to 'Encoder'. Tacking
>>> > 'Media' onto the front of it doesn't serve any real purpose. We already
>>> > know that phonon handles media, so connecting 'encoder' with the purpose
>>> > of encoding media isn't a big mental leap.
>>>
>>> I haven't thought yet about names, and I suppose it's not very important
>>> now. First i want to create generic description of what i will create
>>> during GSoC.
>> Fair enough. Just making sure you didn't have all this set in stone yet.
>
> While I agree with Encoder being the better name, I am not sure it
> would be appropriate in terms of consistent naming. We have MediaNodes
> and MediaSources and MediaControllers and MediaObjects. Arguably those
> are silly names as we also have classes with names such as Effect. So
> I personally would think either way is fine.
> BUT!
> There are more classes going MediaFoo rather than Foo (excluding
> classes with names that actual reflect that they are bound to a
> specific type of media), so I would think MediaEncoder is more in line
> with the existing naming.

I agree. There are also text encodings.

Ian