On 5 May 2006, at 05:12, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Glynn Foster wrote:
>> Hey,
>> So a number of the preferences menu entries have needless renames.
>> Is this really desirable/necessary - just thinking in terms of
>> patch maintenance and localization cost. Does it really get us
>> anywhere?
>> Proposed Community
>> =====================================
>> File Manager File Management
No strong opinion on this one, just bringing forward what we've
always had in JDS. Community version is fine, if a little
inconsistent. (It opens the File Manager Preferences dialog, not the
File Management Preferences dialog.)
>> Fonts Font
Hmm, there was actually a community bug open about whether it should
be "Font" or "Fonts"... forget which way it went in the end. Depends
whether or not you're the sort of person who reads the menus as
sentences ("Preferences->Font == Font Preferences")... Font makes
more sense in that case. But since there are multiple fonts to
change, you might be more inclined just to look for a menu item
called "Fonts".
>> Session Sessions
Similar argument again... the Session capplet only (realistically)
lets you edit the current session, so "Sessions" seems wrong to me here.
>> I'd like to avoid doing these types of changes.
I'd like to persuade the community to take them :)
> Not to mention just about every tooltip change the spec mentions.
> Is this *really* necessary, and could this be done more efficient
> in the upstream community?
Yes, I'd especially like to get the tooltip changes back; most of the
current ones suck bananas, and the proposed ones use a consistent
style/terminology that actually explain what the applications do :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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