On 18/01/2009 13:08, André Schnabel wrote:
Hi and sorry for crossposting ...
the issue happnes with almost every release and it is really a pain for
localization teams (causes us to file issues, needs rework of Ui at a
very late time and causes discussions when we are close to a release).
After all ..it is annoying for everione of us.
What's the issue? Descriptive texts on command buttons.
At the moment I have this in sfx2/source/doc/doc.src
If a document is loaded which is based on a template, for which the
styles have changed, the information "The template '$(ARG1)' on which
this document is based, has been modified. Do you want to update style
based formattings according to the modified template?" is given.
The buttons then are:
"Update styles" and "Keep old styles". This would (correctly) translate to
"Formatvorlagen aktualisieren" and "Alte Formatvorlagen beibehalten"
(slighly more text than in english - and will produce quite ugly UI).
i, for one, am positively surprised that we have such competent user
interface designers that don't just put "Yes" and "No" on buttons, forcing
people to read the whole damn dialog and figuring out exactly how many
negations the question contains...
So - why have these strings been choosen, even if a simple "Yes" and
"No" would have perfectly done the job?
because that leads to software that is a PITA to use?
[snip proposed reward scheme for good ideas]
Btw - the same thing happens on all UI elements. But Buttons are more
sensitive, as for labels and other stuff, we normaly have more space -
but not for Buttons.
if this is a problem caused by our ...umm... idiosyncratic home-grown
toolkit, then why not fix that toolkit instead of retarding progress?
André
mfg,
michael
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Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem.
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