Rename UIActor to something less confusing
See original GitHub issueContext
The name UIActor
causes confusion about the purpose and functionality of the class.
Proposal
Some suggestions have been
- ScreenElement
- ScreenComponent
- etc
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 8 years ago
- Comments:12 (11 by maintainers)
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Yeah, I’ll agree with that. The “Actor” portion does confuse the purpose of the “UIActor” and that is to be a fixed thing on the screen for UI purposes.
ScreenElement is less ambiguous and does make more sense, and it would fit into a possibly UI Elements design metaphor. We could also add DomElement wrappers in that as well…
Ill take it up. Thanks