[dev] Setup, Configuration, Options, Preferences
Michael Rubinsky
mrubinsk at horde.org
Mon Aug 30 18:30:48 UTC 2010
Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
> What do you think about settling on exactly two of those?
>
> We use "Setup" in the admin menu, but the configuration file is
> called conf.php, and in the documentation and support questions we
> call it "configuration".
+1 For Configure/Configuration
> The same is true for "Option", prefs.php and "preferences".
> And then there is "settings" which is used for both in docs and
> mailing list communication.
+1 For Preferences, though maybe Settings would be better since it's shorter?
> This is basically important for the English interface, but we should
> try to reduce confusion by only using one term for the global
> settings and another for the user settings.
Configuration for global and Preferences for the per-user settings.
> And while we're there, does anybody object if we standardize on a
> single config file name for the backend configuration? I'd vote for
> backends.php to replace sources.php, servers.php etc.
Sounds good to me.
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