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> “manager” means absolutely nothing

do you know a better name for "window manager"? i don't mean to hold that up as a paragon of great naming, just genuinely curious what you'd call it.

like, i'm no fan of AbstractFactories (or classes for that matter), but i never quite got this sentiment. to me, "manager" suggests that you have a bunch of resources that should be centrally managed (created/freed, whatever), and theres's something (perhaps an object) that handles that.

ofc it's really generic, and a more concrete name should be used if possible, but i wouldn't say it's meaningless



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