Re: Namespacing for properties

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Darin Adler wrote:

> After the change I just made, Bonobo uses properties named "label",
> "orientation", "style", and "want_label" on a BonoboControl that's being
> embedded as a toolbar item.
>
> Is it OK to have simple names like this? Is there a possibility that there
> are other users of the same property bag that I need to stay out of the way
> of?

You can always pass a property bag to other clients which do strange
things with it. There are also different kinds of property bags - so what
kind of property bag do you use (the standard BonoboPropertyBag)?

> If so, should these names use some kind of namespacing?

> I'm hoping the answers to these questions are: "Yes, No, No".

Well, I would say "Yes, No, No", but maybe I do not understand
all aspects of your question.

- Dietmar