----- Original Message -----
From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 12:47:35 PM
On 02/02/2012 05:13 PM, Miki Kenneth wrote:
>>> If they are the same, then please use the term 'image'.
>>
>> As I said - no technical problem doing that, however in the engine
>> we
>> use the term "Disk" and the current name of the relevant VMs
>> sub-tab
>> is "Disks" and the name of the new main tab would be "Disks"
(or
>> "Virtual Disks"), etc. - so it will be strange to call the feature
>> "floating image" when "floating" is going to be column in a
GUI
>> grid
>> titled "Disks".
>> I assume that you can also find explanations of why using the term
>> "Disk" is confusing and "Image" is better; I am just
genuinely not
>> sure what is less confusing.
> This is inconsistency I agree, but I think that from the User
> perspective we should stick with either Disk or Drive. In any OS
> of a Server/Desktop the term rather Disk or Drives.
I'd go with what the REST API calls them right now, as changing it
would
be the painful part.
REST API uses the term "disks", so I think that the current terminology for this
feature should remain as is (it is also consistent with Miki's argument).