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Discuss whether 'view mode' is a good name

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Created on 5 November 2012, over 12 years ago
Updated 24 July 2023, almost 2 years ago

Problem/Motivation

@Bojhan in #1043198-74: Convert view modes to ConfigEntity → :

I am not entirely convinced that "view modes" is the correct label, although this might be a can of worms because of legacy. But I always saw these things as "display modes", since they are dealing with the display of things. We tend to use the word "display" to mean what you are seeing at least in Drupal UI, the word "view" is largely a code label. I also think there might be some confusion with Views?

And @tstoeckler's response:

I agree that that might be a worthwhile to discuss, but 'view mode' is already a pretty established term, at least for developers. So changing it would be a pretty invasive change. You proposed "display mode", but that conflicts with #1817044: Implement Display, a type of config for use by layouts, et. all → .

Let's discuss that here in detail.

Proposed resolution

Don't know yet.

Remaining tasks

Everything.

User interface changes

Once the View mode UI is in, this will obviously change all references to that.

API changes

We will probably change API and UI in sync, so that probably means quite some changes. But we'll see.

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Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

9.5

Component
Entity  →

Last updated 1 day ago

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🇩🇪Germany tstoeckler Essen, Germany

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  • Comment almost 2 years ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    It's been view mode for some time now and to my knowledge hasn't caused issue. Wonder if this is a valid task anymore?

  • Status changed to Closed: works as designed about 2 months ago
  • Comment about 2 months ago →
    🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

    This discussion seems to have ended 13 years ago. So, I am closing this issue.

    If there is work to do here, then either re-open the issue and add a comment or open a new issue and reference this one.

  • Comment 1 day ago →
    🇺🇸United States xjm

    FWIW, "view mode" is still problematic, but I agree that having this issue open wasn't helping us solve that.

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