Re: Subwindow terminology

[martin rudalics]

> It's a broken metaphor if a child of X is not also a descendant of X,
> and terribly counter-intuitive.

The manual doesn't use metaphors ...

> I don't have any idea what it means for
> a child window to be adopted, and I don't think it matters.

... but if you want to think metaphorically, then "adoption" is the term
to use.

>> I didn't use the terms "ancestor" and "descendant"
>> because these would introduce a genealogical connotation that doesn't
>> exist.
>
> I'm sorry, but you did.  You said "often a parent window is
> genealogically a descendant..."  Of course, you were explaining why the
> term descendant was misleading, but I wouldn't have posted at all if it
> weren't for the fact that you used these terms together.

How else would you describe the fact that a child window is older than
its parent window?

martin