Some naming issues for UIOptions

[Antranig Basman]

On 23/05/2013 13:17, Cheetham, Anastasia wrote:
>
> Antranig, this is an interesting topic. Naming can be a tricky thing; thinking about the issues you raise
> has really got me pondering.
>
> Here are some stream-of-conciousness thoughts: Some opinions, some musings, some questions…
>
>
> First, Antranig, some of the points in your email brought to mind the discussions started in the thread
> "Designing a new UIO API." In that thread, you pointed out that we don't want to somehow elevate the
> out-of-the-box set of panels and settings to any privileged status. You also said
>
>> We anticipate that in real life, almost ALL practical uses of UIO will be in the scenarios labelled
>> under the headings "adding settings" and "removing settings".
>
> These points make a lot of sense to me. Combine them with the information in this email, and it seems
> that the natural, un-altered state of the components is: empty. I'm inclined to refer to the "natural,
> un-altered state of the components" as the "default" state.
>
> But if we use "default" in our naming of the empty components, how then do we refer to the set of
> out-of-the-box panels and settings? "outOfTheBox"? "builtIn"? "starter"? "basic"?
>
> Should we even be referring to them as a set at all? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine there will be
> use-cases where integrators might want to use *some* of the out-of-the-box settings but not others.
> Perhaps there should be no single grade that adds all of them, but rather separate grades for each?
> (Personally, I think we *should* have a single grade that adds all the out-of-the-box settings in one go
> – and not require six separate grades – but I could probably be convinced otherwise by good arguments.)

Thanks for these remarks, Anastasia. In answer to the last questions - we don't have an alternative to have 
names for the separate grades as well as the since grade which combine them for user convenience. If the 
separate grades didn't have names, they couldn't exist :) "outOfTheBox" seems to be our current de facto 
alternative to "default", and I think words like "builtIn" are prejudicial by virtue of the previous 
argument suggesting "privilege for the 1st parties" - clearly these grades are NOT actually "built in" as we 
established.

I'm not particularly excited about any of the words on offer, so calling on the community for some fresh 
brainstorming! Perhaps we can have a chat in IRC tomorrow -

Cheers,
A