Purpose of outline's "Table of Contents"?

[Thibaut Cuvelier]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 13:40, Jürgen Spitzmüller <spitz at lyx.org> wrote:

> Am Di., 22. Feb. 2022 um 13:00 Uhr schrieb Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>:
>
>> I am wondering what the purpose of the "Table of Contents" in the
>> Outliner is. Is it supposed to show those elements that actually appear
>> in the "Table of Contents"? Or all "Sectioning"/"Headings" independently
>> of whether they actually appear in the TOC.
>>
>> Currently, it seems to rather do the latter than the former because it
>> also lists "starred" sectioning entries that don't go into the TOC.
>>
>
> Yes. Also Frames in beamer and other structural elements. One purpose is
> to easily move around parts of the document.
>
>
>> Maybe a renaming would be worthwhile in order to not confuse the two?
>>
>
> I figure the most common term is actually "outline". Or "document
> structure".
>

The Outline pane does more than just the sections of the document, it would
be really weird to rename the ToC "Outline". "Document structure" seems
better.
(By the way, Google Docs has a "Outline" pane and Word a "Navigation" one,
for the same purpose.)
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