New name for "Implode"/"Explode"-tool
For my GSoC project I'm improving the Implode and Explode tools. One response to my [blog post](https://musescore.org/en/user/124871/blog/2016/07/10/gsoc-week-7) was that the names for the tools are inappropriate. There have been two suggestions for each:
Implode:
- Gather
- Merge
Explode
- Scatter
- Separate
I think it is important to have fitting titles for the tools, so they it makes MuseScore more intuitiv to use.
If you have any more suggestions or have a favorite expressions, feel free to answer.
Comments
Implode and Expldoe are the standard names used in other software. I think it would be a mistake to change them to something unfamiliar.
In reply to Implode and Expldoe are the by Marc Sabatella
I never used any of these other softwares and find the current names quite disturbing. Then again I use the German translation and there much less disturbing words are used
In reply to I never used any of these by Jojo-Schmitz
I don't find them disturbing so much as entertaining. "Explode" means the notes go BOOM onto the lower staves! "Implode" means they go FLUMP together! I can't help but smile when I think about it.
In all seriousness, I vote keep the names.
In reply to I never used any of these by Jojo-Schmitz
It's pretty common to use the term 'explode' to mean a separated view - in engineering. It's a reference to how a thing might look if you paused it in the middle of it blowing up. The phrase is 'exploded view'. It gained popularity in the 1940s.
I don't find it that intuitive for the tool, though, and would prefer split/merge - just add the word 'Parts' to it, it'll be fine.
Another alternative name for Explode would be "Split".
In reply to Another alternative name for by AndreasKågedal
Split/Merge as a pair. Unfortunatly already in use for measures
'Explode' has been used in ACAD since R-14, at least. It's been years since I used the program regularly so I don't remember offhand if there is an 'implode' command as well (if there is, I don't remember ever using it), but when a discrete, composite object such as a rectangle is selected, 'explode' entered to the command line separates the object into its (four) component lines so that they can be individually edited or have their properties modified (layer, colour, whatever...). That is pretty much what MuseScore does when exploding a chord, at least from a user perspective.
If MuseScore had a tool that would merge or split-off voices from/to various staves, I could see a possible case for changing the terminology. But as the current tool applies only to chords, explode and implode are fairly descriptive of what's going on. JMHO. ;o)
I vote keep as well; mainly because they are used in other software notation packages with similar functions.
If we do change them, I'd also consider "
Combine" as an alternative to Implode.Maybe:
Explode -> Spread (voices to staves)
Implode -> Join (staves to voices)
However I can live with explode / implode as well. As long as I know what it does and where to find it I don't have a problem with the existing names.