The original name was not representative for the scope of the class
and misleading at best.
The class manages actions for a given layer and it's not a single action
like the former name suggested.
There is a typedef introduced to keep it in the API until we can remove
it with QGIS 3.
Rationale:
- there was a lot of large objects passed by value, so potentially
there's a speed bump from this
- even for implicitly shared classes like QString/QList there's still
a (small) cost for copying the objects when there's no reason to
- it's the right thing to do!
