[pmwiki-users] [pmwiki-devel] Is 'RightBar' the right name?

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Tue May 22 07:12:12 CDT 2007


On 5/22/07, Stirling Westrup <sti at pooq.com> wrote:
>
> I'm working on a skin for a project and its going to have both a sidebar
> and
> an (optional) rightbar. I'm not sure that 'rightbar' is what I should be
> referring to it as though. One of the configuration options is going to be
> to
> switch the contents of the left and right sidebars, so the 'sidebar' will
> be
> on the right, and the 'rightbar' will end up on the left, thus
> demonstrating
> the problem with the name.
>
> I've been thinking of using 'altbar' or 'altsidebar' or some other name
> for
> the sidebar that will (by default) show up on the right side. Does anyone
> else
> have any suggestions?


Maybe name them for their intended uses?  NavBar, ToolsBar, LinksBar, etc.
OR have a LeftBar and RightBar but have NO fixed contents in either one, and
instead populate each only via "includes", and name the includables for
their functions - GroupMenu, LinksMenu, ToolsMenu, etc.
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