Don't give me false hope that we can have taxonomy back and remove the complete confusion between the menu and module name mis-match and the contributed module named categories completely muddying the waters. I almost never +1 a thread, but getting rid of 'categories' and renaming it back to the original Taxonomy would be a good thing from my point of view. For those that thing it should be listed as a 'Feature', send me text/verbiage off list and I will add it. Steven Peck :: www.blkmtn.org On Nov 14, 2007 12:00 PM, David Cohen <drupal@dave-cohen.com> wrote:
I rarely read bikeshed (www.bikeshed.org) type threads, let alone weigh in on them. But I'll offer a suggestion here and hopefully wont regret it.
It's undeniable there is class of users who is put off by and/or intimidated by and/or has trouble understanding words like "taxonomy," "category," "vocabulary" and presumably others with three+ syllables ;) . That's why these discussions come up from time to time.
There have been a number of suggestions that might make things easier to grok for newbies and users who don't want to get more than ankle deep in Drupal. But every one I've seen uses some term that some people on this list really don't like. In fact there's only one term I've seen no objection to, and that is "term". Therefore I suggest:
taxonomy.module -> term.module (or just leave it taxonomy.module) Vocabularies -> Term Sets Terms -> Terms
Perhaps with this scheme new users and clients will not be confused when they first see them, and will eventually discover that term sets can be entire hierarchies with lots of features. By then they may know enough about Drupal that these features will be a pleasant surprise and not a source of confusion.
Personally, I've never had a problem with the words taxonomy, vocabulary, etc. That's why I called this a bikeshed argument earlier. Because to me personally the names make little difference. The power of the features remains important to me.
Thanks for reading my humble opinions,
-Dave
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:32:02 -0800, "Derek Wright" <drupal@dwwright.net> said:
[Am I the only one who thinks it's worth forking this monster thread into appropriately named subthreads to cover the various parallel conversations going on?]
Definitely not.