D23415: Improve comprehensibility and consistency of window placement mode names

Nathaniel Graham noreply at phabricator.kde.org
Tue Aug 27 17:26:51 BST 2019


ngraham added a comment.


  In D23415#520256 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D23415#520256>, @davidedmundson wrote:
  
  >   >And "Smart" is a bad name because unlike all the other window placement modes, it is a generic meaningless term whose name does not explain or hint at what it will do
  >   
  >
  > Yes and no, it has one crucially important hint. It indicates "unless you want something special, you want this one", which the new string doesn't do.
  
  
  I'm not sure how "smart" indicates that. Generally, "unless you want something special, you want this one" is indicated by something being the default--which Smart already is.

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