"Main parents" or "Preferred" or "Primary"

emyoulation · November 18, 2024, 7:24pm

Need direction on a terminology found while improving the cross-references in the Re-ordering data in Gramps (topic expansion outline for wiki) article.

In most features of Gramps, we refer to Preferred or Primary, but in ordering of Families, the documentation refers to Main Parents.

Is “Main Parents” used anywhere in the source code? Or can we harmonize the wiki to “Preferred Parents”?

Found 2 wiki articles referring to the main parents:

Main parents family in Gramps - controls which Family is followed in pedigrees. (Changing terminology will require “moving” the wiki page to a new linkable article name. No pages referring to that article.)
Addon:Graphical Reports in Personal Display Format under Tree Display Tab

Found 1 instance in a Plugin report:

github.com

gramps-project/gramps/blob/8ca2326523ca3093c3a07c0182804f2ad8c5cb00/gramps/plugins/textreport/detdescendantreport.py#L578


      
                  for notehandle in notelist:
                      note = self._db.get_note_from_handle(notehandle)
                      self.doc.write_styled_note(
                          note.get_styledtext(),
                          note.get_format(),
                          "DDR-MoreDetails",
                          contains_html=(note.get_type() == NoteType.HTML_CODE),
                      )
          
          def __write_parents(self, person):
              """write out the main parents of a person"""
              family_handle = person.get_main_parents_family_handle()
              if family_handle:
                  family = self._db.get_family_from_handle(family_handle)
                  mother_handle = family.get_mother_handle()
                  father_handle = family.get_father_handle()
                  if mother_handle:
                      mother = self._db.get_person_from_handle(mother_handle)
                      mother_name = self._name_display.display_name(mother.get_primary_name())
                      mother_mark = utils.get_person_mark(self._db, mother)
                  else:

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"Main parents" or "Preferred" or "Primary"

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