@algernon recently wrote about [ Managing core and contributed Kaleidoscope plugins ](his progress) on categorizing parts of the firmware. It seems he is currently working on a grouping/categorization/modularization/git-submodulification of the existing parts of the firmware. When I read his ideas a…

I completely agree that terminology has been fuzzy, and I’d like to see us decide on clearer definitions for terms that we use. I also like the idea of increasing the vocabulary to provide clear distinctions between things. Your definitions of “module” and “plugin” are great, though “project” is not…

[image] merlin: though “project” is not one that I like much (I think “project” is better for a description of the work that is done to make something, rather than the thing that is made). If I think of a better alternative, I’ll let you know. I also think it would be nice to have a term (or ma…

[image] merlin: “Kaleidoscope-Foo isn’t a plugin, it’s a wug.” Fair enough! Let’s call it wug… or … maybe wugin?

For anyone unfamiliar, “wug” is a famous nonce word from developmental psychology & cognitive science, used in the “wug test” where a novel object is given to a very young test subject, who is told that the object is a “wug”, to see if they use the pluralization rule properly.

That word stole Jean Berko Gleasson from Barry Kripke!

I agree that we should have a standard vocabulary. And I’ve let everyone down by not having a written glossary from the get-go. This should include not just the names of chunks of code, but also of objects inside the system. (key, keyswitch, layer, layout, keymap, etc) In my head: Library or Ardu…

(A number of posts that are more related to Kaleidoscope-CMake were moved here . There is some overlap with terminology, but the bulk of it is off-topic in this thread.)

Terminology (plugin, module, project, etc.)

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Terminology (plugin, module, project, etc.)

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