Proposing to reword "mirror" to "flip" except when referring to the mirror tool

[Tyson Tan]

I agree that we should change this to "Flip", in Simplified Chinese
translation we have been using "Flip" for every app I know since ever.

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 9:33 PM Halla Rempt <halla at valdyas.org> wrote:

> I'm not against, though in my mind, flip means flipping a page from front
> to back, not mirroring it :-)
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> Halla
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> On donderdag 2 november 2023 14:17:07 CET Alvin Wong wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Currently we refer to the actions for flipping layers / objects / the
> > image / the view as "mirror". This can be confusing considering we also
> > have the mirror tools which actually mirror brush strokes like a mirror.
> >
> > I propose we reword these actions to use the word "flip" to remove this
> > ambiguity. I did some quick searches and it seems many graphics
> > applications (including GIMP, PS, CSP, Inkscape, Paint .NET) also use
> > "flip" to describe these actions, so this also appears to be the more
> > common terminology.
> >
> > There is a catch though, the "Mirror View" action has the default hotkey
> > "M", if we rename it to "Flip View" then this hotkey becomes detached
> > from the name of the action (although this is already the case in some
> > languages). I am not sure how acceptable this is.
> >
> > What do you think about this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alvin
> >
> >
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