What is the name of the design pattern used to create, rename and load user-presets such as styles, favorites, and workspace layouts?
I want to find out what other people have found out about a very common design-pattern. However, my searches come up empty. The pattern is a minimalist save/load feature for things secondary to the actual user content. Good examples are:
- Styles in Word, Photoshop
- Window/Workspace layouts in IDEs
- Presets of any kind
- Favorites in web browsers
The pattern manifests itself with minimal or contextual UI, such as :
What is this pattern called?