Sure, I agree. OTOH, I really don't care whether it is you who knows nothing about Boolean operations, or a hypothetical user on whos behalf you are arguing. In my opinion, that is something an educated person should know. I checked how it is used in Inkscape (by the way, I do like Inkscape, and I did enjoy your review), and I must admit I do find it slightly problematic, though. It is not really used by the application itself, but in the keyboard shortcut help, there is a category called "Booleans". While I insist that Boolean operations are (or should be) part of general knowledge, perhaps it is rather easy to forget a name like George Boole. In that case the word "Booleans" is rather incomprehensible. Perhaps using "Set operations" instead would be more clear?
AFAICT, there isn't any commonly used word for this, so one can just as well use a term that will be familiar to some segment of user population, and perhaps explain in the manual what they are. Besides, this way, I can use Inkscape to teach logic!<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
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Re:boolean operations
Posted by: lahvak on September 26, 2005 07:20 AMAFAICT, there isn't any commonly used word for this, so one can just as well use a term that will be familiar to some segment of user population, and perhaps explain in the manual what they are. Besides, this way, I can use Inkscape to teach logic!<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
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