On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:53:51PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:55:51PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:26:32PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
> > > Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > > >On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:40:35PM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
> > > >  
> > > >>This "flex" name is sort of uninformative. What about calling them
> > > >>"soft" insets (as in soft-coded vs. hard-coded)?
> > > >>    
> > > >It's as uninformative.
> > > >  
> > > Martin changed it from InsetCharStyle because they'd become more 
> > > general. Anyway, it's not used in the layout files, just in the code. As 
> > > far as layout is concerned, there are still charstyles, and now there 
> > > are also "custom" insets.
> > > >Andre'
> > > >  
> > 
> > Actually I toyed with the name 'soft', but wasn't sure. Then I asked if
> > anybody had a better idea than 'flex'. Nobody responded. 
> > 
> > Changing the codebase over to flex lasted several days. Nobody had a
> > problem with the name. Of course we can change it again, at the cost
> > of recompiling lots of code by all developers -- but this time somebody
> > else may do it ;-/
> 
> Just leave it as it is. People will get used to it.
> 
> Andre'

;-)

- Martin

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