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Title: Rename "Personality" to "Profile"
Post by: takeshimiya on December 12, 2005, 05:31:16 pm

Hi! I think that the "personality" term is a bit strange and can be changed to "profile", which is the term used by other apps (Mozilla, KDevelop, Office, etc).
"Personality" seemed to cause confusion as stated in this post (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=1377.msg11560#msg11560).

On a personal note, I think I like more the term personality, but the first time I heard about "personality", I thought "what the ** is that??"
But the term "profile" is widely used in almost all programs.

So, what do you think?

Title: Re: Rename "Personality" to "Profile"
Post by: Michael on December 12, 2005, 05:37:06 pm

Quote from: Takeshi Miya on December 12, 2005, 05:31:16 pm

Hi! I think that the "personality" term is a bit strange and can be changed to "profile", which is the term used by other apps (Mozilla, KDevelop, Office, etc).

"Personality" seemed to cause confusion as stated in this post (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=1377.msg11560#msg11560).

Rather than strange, I find the term personality special. The first time I saw it, I felt curious and look at the wiki article. As written in a previous post (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=1377.msg11560#msg11560) personality give C::B something special and personal :).

Michael

Title: Re: Rename "Personality" to "Profile"
Post by: takeshimiya on December 12, 2005, 05:44:59 pm

I agree on that, but it seems that new users will want a "profile" functionality and will not found it. :(

Title: Re: Rename "Personality" to "Profile"
Post by: Michael on December 12, 2005, 05:54:02 pm

Quote from: Takeshi Miya on December 12, 2005, 05:44:59 pm

I agree on that, but it seems that new users will want a "profile" functionality and will not found it. :(

Yes, this is the negative aspect :(. May be it could be useful to add personalities to the feature list on the C::B website and explains shortly what they are. For example:

Quote

Personalites: C::B profiles representing different sets of settings each tailored for a different workflow.

This could help new users to get the idea, I think.

Michael

Title: Re: Rename "Personality" to "Profile"
Post by: mandrav on December 12, 2005, 05:55:52 pm

So all this means is that adding an alias command-line option "--profile" (synonym to "--personality")will make you all happy?

Title: Re: Rename "Personality" to "Profile"
Post by: Michael on December 12, 2005, 05:57:36 pm

Quote from: mandrav on December 12, 2005, 05:55:52 pm

So all this means is that adding an alias command-line option "--profile" (synonym to "--personality")will make you all happy?

From my side, yes :).

Michael

Title: Re: Rename "Personality" to "Profile"
Post by: takeshimiya on December 12, 2005, 05:59:40 pm

For me it's the same. :)

I only wanted to note that the term is not newbie-friendly.

Title: Re: Rename "Personality" to "Profile"
Post by: mandrav on December 12, 2005, 06:05:31 pm

OK, the change is in HEAD (rev. 1493).