rename misleading term "shared clients"

[anonymous]

I think, we should rename the long-present but entirely misleading name "shared clients" in tunnel setup.
In the end, when irc, eepproxy and pop3 are on "share clients" I won't be able to use thunderbird for irc sessions.
Why do we call it "shared clients"? What's the client I share? Will my browser use my irc client, namely xchat, to access forum.i2p?
Or should it not rather be called "shared tunnel"?

shared (client) tunnel - a tunnel shared by various clients, i.e. a shared tunnel. Or if you want to retain the nothion of it being a client tunnel, then call it "different clients" as this tunnel is used by different but not shared clients - the clients are NOT shared, but various or different; or the long version "shared by clients"
This is why I think it should rather be named accordingly.

[zzz]

you have some points. I'm concerned about how many references to 'shared clients' we may have in our docs and elsewhere in the console.

Some day I hope to have 'shared client groups', where there may be multiple groups of shared tunnels, each with their own name.

Hopefully others will add their comments on your proposal here.

[anonymous]

I have always wondered what this shared client thing is …

[mixxy]

on routerconsole not many. Iirc, I found it only in i2prunnel, routerconsole start page's readme and initialNews. But I cannot speak of the docs.