D23415: Improve comprehensibility and consistency of window placement mode names

Nathaniel Graham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.kwin,gmane.comp.kde.doc
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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
  >   
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  > 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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