Bug 15357

Summary:	The Gtk+ WebKit API namespace (webkit_gtk) is ugly
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Alp Toker <alp>
Component:	New Bugs	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	Normal	CC:	mrowe
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	Gtk
Version:	523.x (Safari 3)
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Alp Toker

Reported 2007-10-03 03:23:29 PDT

The naming convention that has arisen for the Gtk+ WebKit public API is not very elegant or conventional. eg. webkit_gtk_frame_new() The _gtk component is redundant and should be removed. eg. webkit_frame_new() It may even be an idea to reduce webkit_ to web_ as suggested by andersca... eg. web_frame_new() This makes the API less verbose and also self-describing in a cute kind of way -- everyone can imagine what a "Web Frame" is.

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Mark Rowe (bdash)

Comment 1 2007-10-03 03:29:14 PDT

web_ also matches the Web prefix used in the Mac API, and definitely leads to nicer sounding function names than the two alternatives that were mentioned.

Alp Toker

Comment 2 2007-10-03 05:46:40 PDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14726 ***

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