"Andrew P. Black" wrote:
> 
> Re: Terminology.
> At 17:41 +0100 2001.04.15, John Hinsley wrote:
> 
> >  > I called the entire surrounding pantheon of icons a halo but I
> >think Squeakers
> >>  generally call each of the buttons surrounding the selected object
> >>a halo. I'm
> >>  not sure it matters _too_ much but in tutorials we probably ought
> >>to agree on
> >>  the terminology.
> >
> >Yes. Any ideas for what to call the collection of halos? A cluster of
> >halos? A hoopla of halos? A holy of halos?
> 
> I think that the whole collection of colored blobs should be called a
> halo.  After all, this is close to the accepted meaning of the term
> in English.  What then to call each of the colored blobs?  How about
> "buttons"?
> 
> Sometime you can avoid using a word at all, by just saying something
> like: bring up the Morphic halo on foo, and click the purple
> eyedropper.
I basicly agree.
One can just use purple halo. If someone say: the green halo I know
pretty well what they
mean.
 
karl