On 19.02.18 17:40, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > In the preferences dialog of enigmail 2.0-beta1, the "Transfer Settings" > tab has a button "Initiate Autocrypt Key Transfer". > > Autocrypt goes to great pains to avoid exposing users to the term "Key", > so it seems odd to see "Key" paired with "Autocrypt" here, especially > since the tab itself does not have "Key" in its title.> > Could this be "Autocrypt Setup Transfer" or "Initiate Autocrypt Setup? > or something like that?
Yes, that's not ideal wording. > The dialog as a whole is too much text for most users to read, in this > era of short attention spans. I recommend splitting it into three > simple buttons, something like: > > > [ Set up another Autocrypt e-mail app ] (_What's_Autocrypt?_) > > [ Back up your Enigmail settings ] > > [ Restore Enigmail settings from backup ] > > I'm imagining that _What's_Autocrypt?_ would be a link that takes the > user to some explanatory page at https://autocrypt.org/ . > > (obviously, if enigmail is not in a state to be able to initiate an > Autocrypt Setup Message, the first button should be disabled; perhaps > adding a tooltip or a "why is this disabled?" link would be friendly in > that situation) > > Maybe with this setup, we can do away with all the rest of the text > in that pane entirely? Even if I agree, the problem is that we're string-frozen. Some translators have already completed their work. While we can discuss whether to use "secret key" or "private key", I can't make adjustments of this order of magnitude anymore. I have therefore createed bug 749 <https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/749/> for this. -Patrick
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