Hi all, I'm requesting string and UI freeze breaks for Empathy to fix two bugs which relate to the discoverability of the unlinking functionality in Empathy. This functionality allows the user to unlink a meta-contact so that they get back the contacts they originally linked together. i.e. It's undo for meta-contacts.
The “Unlink” button is currently positioned on the contact editing dialogue, but after some discussion we've decided that it would be a lot more logical and discoverable to put it on the linking dialogue itself. This would make the unlinking functionality easier to discover, and save users having to hunt around for it in the rare case that they need to use it. The button would have a confirmation dialogue added, and its label changed accordingly (adding an ellipsis). The second change is to re-label the menu entry which activates the linking dialogue, accesible by right-clicking on a contact in the contact list. It's currently “Link…”, but we think its meaning would be clearer if it was changed to “Link Contacts…”. The discussion took place on the following two bugs, and patches are posted there: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628376 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628377 The following two screenshots show the “before” and “after“ of moving the “Unlink” button from the contact editing dialogue to the linking dialogue: http://people.collabora.co.uk/~pwith/empathy-before-moving-unlink-button.png http://people.collabora.co.uk/~pwith/empathy-after-moving-unlink-button.png This is better done now than next cycle, as it significantly enhances the discoverability of the unlinking functionality. In summary, we request to: • move the “Unlink” button from one dialogue to another, keeping its functionality the same; • add a confirmation dialogue to the “Unlink” button to prevent accidental unlinking. This requires new strings; • add a tooltip to the “Unlink” button to briefly explain its functionality. This also requires a new string; • change the menu entry for the linking dialogue from “Link…” to “Link Contacts…”. This would result in the following new/changed strings: • “_Link Contacts…” • “_Unlink…” • “Completely split the displayed meta-contact into the contacts it contains.” • “Unlink meta-contact '%s'?” • “Are you sure you want to unlink this meta-contact? This will completely split the meta-contact into the contacts it contains.” Sorry for having to request a freeze break this far into the freezes, but we believe this is a useful change. Thanks, Philip _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
