Names, labels, and titles¶

A name is internal (usable in Python code) and identifies the actor in its module’s namespace (the app_label). Users usually don’t see the name of an actor. Except for example in a permalink.

The label and the title of an actor both are descriptive strings presented to the user. The label is shorter than the title. The label is used when the actor has not yet opened, for example on a button or menu item that will open this actor.

Both label and title of a model table default to Django’s verbose_name_plural.

The class lino.utils.babel.BabelNamed should one day be renamed to lino.utils.babel.BabelLabeled, and (less easy because it will cause much code for the data migration) have a field label instead of name.