Open Bug 1737650 Opened 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Rename folders and files from "preferences" to "settings"

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, task)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Type:
task

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: aleca, Unassigned)

References

Details

After bug 1725122, we now use "Settings" instead of "Preferences" across the application.

We need to go a step forward to guarantee consistency in the code base and better greppability of sections by updating all our files and folders to reflect this change.

  • Folder names
  • File names
  • Tab names (e.g.: about:preferences)
  • Function names (e.g.: openPreferencesTab())
  • Code comments
  • Tests

This is a massive endeavor, and not fun at all, but I think we should do it before next ESR.
Doing this will basically make uplift requests almost impossible to apply cleanly.

Alongside it, we should update our KB and various documentations around to reflect the string change (pinging Thomas to hear is thoughts and possible action plan).

There is massive history of "about:preferences", so I'm not sure we need to change anything in the code.
Firefox also did not change their code when adjusting the label, and we want to stay in sync with their code. So I'd suggest wontfix.

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