To follow pdb conventions, a patch that renames the type attribute to
name attribute in both AtomDecerator and ResidueDecerator is attached.
Why should we follow PDB conventions anyway? And I have a couple of
other problems with this proposed patch:
1. The residue type really is a type. All THY residues are thymines, for
example - it's not an arbitrary name.
I generally agree with you for those reasons (obviously, I guess, since
I did it that way). However, calling it name seems to be more common
(not that I have done an exhaustive survey). If there really is a strong
convention, we probably should follow that.