Why is Std DependencyGraph renamed?

[chrisb]

I just saw that the well known page Std DependencyGraph has been renamed to Std ExportGraphviz.
I think it is a bad idea in terms of user expierience, because of two reasons:

- In the menu bar it is called "Dependency Graph".
- It has nothing to do with any export.
- And the third of the two reasons is, that it has always been called "Dependency Graph".

The "Std" was already fancy enough, but keeping this and adding another word, which has nothing to do with what the user sees, seems a bit strange. From my point of view the wiki should not reflect some internal structures, but rather make sense in itself. If both can be achieved - even better. If not and some internals should be reflected, it should go to a separate part of the documentation.

[vocx]

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- And the third of the two reasons is, that it has always been called "Dependency Graph".
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From my point of view the wiki should not reflect some internal structures, but rather make sense in itself...

The command is internally called Std_ExportGraphviz in src/Gui/CommandDoc.ccp.

It's been called this way since git commit 9170bfe045, 8 years ago, when Werner added it.

Since the documentation system, Std_WhatsThis, is tied to the wiki, the name of the wiki page must match.

Nevertheless, I concur that many command names should probably be named better. The solution here would be to rename the command in the source to something like Std_DependencyGraph. Please ask Werner to do it.

[chrisb]

Hmm, I don't like changing the code for such things either. Nevertheless Werner may comment:

ping

[wmayer]

The solution here would be to rename the command in the source to something like Std_DependencyGraph. Please ask Werner to do it.

Yes, calling the command like this is more suitable. I guess it's easy to rename this Wiki page again to how it was before?

[vocx]

Yes, calling the command like this is more suitable. I guess it's easy to rename this Wiki page again to how it was before?

Yes.

[wmayer]

git commit 17c79f19e

[chrisb]

git commit 17c79f19e

Thank you very much!

We have a similar situation with PartDesign->Plane, PartDesign->Line, and PartDesign->Point, which should be called PartDesign->DatumPlane, PartDesign->DatumLine, and PartDesign->DatumPoint.

Ickby wasn't very active recently, but I ping him too:

ping

[wmayer]

The wiki pages are called PartDesign_Point, PartDesign_Line an PartDesign_Plane which is consistent with the source code.
So, have these wiki pages been renamed recently, too?

[wmayer]

I found the topic here: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=46286

Here the class names, command names and wiki pages are consistent. So, it's not quite clear to me what you want to change.

The only inconsistency is that the file names and the class name of the view providers include the term "Datum" but I don't consider this a problem. In case you want to add "Datum" to everything then this is not a good idea. The C++ features Point, Line or Plane cannot be renamed to DatumPoint, DatumLine or DatumPlane because this will break all existing project files.

[chrisb]

I don't know if they were renamed, probably not. It was only seen from a user's view. In Part Design we see and discuss only DatumPlane, ... If it is not possible - but would be neccesary - to rename things in C++, then we can add a redirection.