widget + gadget =

• gidget?
• module?
• plugin?

Ideas and opinions are welcome.
(This name is needed for an unified (widget-/gadget-)handler `used` in LuaRules, LuaGaia & LuaUI.)

wadget

luadget (gets pronounced as 'ladget')

get^2gawd

Lua Unified Active Script

squidgeon
piglet
pomegranate
gizmo

spript
(spring + script)

springlet

Without being overly creative: LuaModuleHandler

Both Widget and Gadget have this association with "small GUI app", and that is a bit wrong. There may not be any GUI.

scriptlet. A widget is a an unsynced GUI scriptlet, a gadget is a synced gameplay scriptlet.

"gidget"

That way you have:
Gidgets
Gadgets
and
Widgets

midget

+1

doodad

Laugh if you want, but that's the name I'm using in my
reincarnation of widgets.lua/gadgets.lua (that being said,
the name used for modules is configurable).

(Lua) plugin
Module.. for my understanding, would be something bigger then a plugin. like for example, the different dirs under rts/ in the source tree could be modules, while something like AIs of widgets/gadgets are more like plugins... it is possible to get something going without any gadget/widget, and there may be an arbitrary number of them.

i would say, if you call it plugin, the idea created in a persons mind that know nothing about spring(it's terminology) is as close as you can get to what it really is.
it is always nice if you do not have to read/be told what something is, to have a basic idea of what it could be.

modulas

For Spring or something else?

I like piglet most.

I kinda like doodad. What is this thing for anyway?

@FLOZi:
For something else, though SpringRTS could use it. IIRC, jk
was reworking the SpringRTS files, so you're already in good
hands.