[drupal-docs] Customizing applications pages

[Charlie Lowe]

I have to agree with Boris. I remember the whole taxonomy vs categories 
debate when we went through that name change. That was a long, long 
battle (for those of you who weren't here) even though the easiest way 
to define a taxonomy in user friendly language is as a "set of categories."

But this is different. Calling modules "applications" it not likely to 
dispell much confusion. It may even add confusion when, as is sometimes 
necessary, documentation might happen to use the term "application" in 
other contexts.

I would suggest that rather than pushing this--which will result in lots 
of Drupal community hours of discussion--that time might be better spent 
merely rewriting documentation :)

Charlie

Boris Mann wrote:
> On 9-May-05, at 9:44 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:

> They're not applications. Do you double-click and they run? They  
> don't stand alone. Some of them don't even directly DO anything that  
> regular folks would recognize (the Drupal module is probably a good  
> example).
> 
> Drupal/CivicSpace is an application. The things inside are modules,  
> because they provide modular functionality.
> 
> IMHO, the word "application" in this context is more misleading than  
> the word module. This is a piece of terminology that must be learned  
> in the context of web applications, I believe.
> 
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