Slider: Naming Slice

[ax3l]

With "slice direction" in the OpenPMDTimeSeries.slider we actually mean the slice normal, don't we? Should we rename it, I find the term direction to be quite arbitrary in the widget (because a plane would need at least to base vectors pointing somewhere in the plane to span a slice).

[RemiLehe]

Yes, it is indeed the slice normal.
One option would be to replace "Slice direction" by "Slice along:". The idea is that when the user wants an x-z slice, then he has to slice the data along y.

Would this be a good solution?

[RemiLehe]

Actually, please disregard my latest comment: in the end, I think "Slice along" is just as confusing as "Slice direction:".
So, I agree that "Slice perpendicular to" or "Slice orthogononal to" is clearer but it is also a bit too long for the GUI:

Instead what, do you think of "Slicing through:" (a bit less clear, but also much shorter). Any other suggestion otherwise?

[ax3l]

Wuhu, yeas that's why I thought make it short and explicit with "slice normal:" specifying the normal of the slice :)

I would also rename "Coord" to "comp." or "component" since it's not necessarily along the same and can be confusing.

[RemiLehe]

OK, "Slice normal:" works. I'll prepare a PR for this.

Regarding changing "coord" to "comp.", the problem is that the get_field API uses "coord" (which is probably a badly chosen name, but we now have to stick to it for backwards compatibility). Of course, we can use a different name in the GUI and the API, but I would rather not. What do you think?

[ax3l]

I think lets open an issue and change coord to component in a major release, e.g. 1.0.0

[ax3l]

closed via #149