Hi,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Vincent Massol wrote:
> > On Nov 18, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Vincent,
> >>
> >> Vincent Massol wrote:
> >>> On Nov 18, 2009, at 12:44 AM, mflorea (SVN) wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Author: mflorea
> >>>> Date: 2009-11-18 00:44:21 +0100 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009)
> >>>> New Revision: 25111
> >>>>
> >>>> Modified:
> >>>>  platform/web/branches/xwiki-web-2.0/wysiwyg/src/main/resources/com/
> >>>> xpn/xwiki/wysiwyg/client/editor/Strings.properties
> >>>> Log:
> >>>> XWIKI-4581: Change the name for "Background Color" to "Highlight
> >>>> Color"
> >>>>
> >>>> Merged from trunk, revision 25110.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Modified: platform/web/branches/xwiki-web-2.0/wysiwyg/src/main/
> >>>> resources/com/xpn/xwiki/wysiwyg/client/editor/Strings.properties
> >>>> ===================================================================
> >>>> --- platform/web/branches/xwiki-web-2.0/wysiwyg/src/main/resources/
> >>>> com/xpn/xwiki/wysiwyg/client/editor/Strings.properties     2009-11-17
> >>>> 23:43:13 UTC (rev 25110)
> >>>> +++ platform/web/branches/xwiki-web-2.0/wysiwyg/src/main/resources/
> >>>> com/xpn/xwiki/wysiwyg/client/editor/Strings.properties     2009-11-17
> >>>> 23:44:21 UTC (rev 25111)
> >>>> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> >>>> apply=Apply
> >>>> select=Select
> >>>> attachment=Insert an Attachment Link
> >>>> -backColor=Background Color
> >>>> +backColor=Highlight Color
> >>> Minor:
> >>>
> >>> Is it the background color or the highlight color?
> >> It is highlight color. Both Open Office Writer and Microsoft Word use
> >> this term to define the action of changing the background color of the
> >> selected text.
> >
> > If they're doing it they must be right I guess.... I would never has
> > imagined that highlight color would be about the background color...
> >
> >> Open Office has in fact both: background color affects
> >> the entire line not just the selected text as it happens with
> >> highlight
> >> color; and you can apply both at the same time: highlight color has
> >> priority.
> >>
> >>> If highlight is the correct one then maybe the key name should be
> >>> changed too? At the very least I think a comment would be necessary
> >>> since someone reading this line will not know who's right... the key
> >>> or the value... Highlight is a term that refers to me as a foreground
> >>> color.
> >> IMO background color is more generic (or vague) than highlight color
> >
> > Background is definitely way more precise than highlight to me.
> > Highlight means to... highlight. There are lots of ways to highlight
> > something: you could underline it (so it could the underline color),
> > it could be the text color (this is what is used daily by everyone
> > when they write on paper and want to highlight some word), you could
> > draw a square around the text, and apparently in OO's case it's about
> > changing the background color...
> >
>
> > Anyway if they do it.... let's hope they thought this out and I'm the
> > only one who dislike "highlight color" :)
>
> I'm not a big fan myself but apparently, as Silvia pointed out, this
> term is well understood among those using rich text editors.
>
> Now I see that CKEditor is still using "Background color". Guillaume, WDYT?
>

I personally like "background color" best too... However I have no hard
facts to support either of them so I can't really tell what's best.

Guillaume


> Marius
>
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation
> > -Vincent
> >
> >> so
> >> I don't think there is a contradiction between these terms (although
> >> for
> >> Open Office they have different meanings). That's why I didn't change
> >> the key. I could do it but then I guess I should also update the
> >> class,
> >> method, field or variable names to reflect this changed, which is a
> >> pain. Also, the feature is call backcolor so I should change it too
> >> and
> >> then the documentation. The reason for the tooltip change was just to
> >> make it more specific.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Marius
> >>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> -Vincent
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