https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161956
Bug ID: 161956
Summary: Overhaul terminology on the "Text along Path" dialog
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.0.0 beta1+
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Most of the UI strings on the "Text along Path" dialog in Draw and Impress are
IMO quite confusing and inconsistent. I think they could be improved as follows
(listed here in the order they appear in the UI):
* "Style": quite vague and not related to the concept of styles in general in
LO, change to e.g. "Character Orientation and Skew" (see below for reasoning).
* "Baseline Off": this actually disables all Text along Path formatting, so a
better name would be "Disable Text along Path".
* "Rotate": a more descriptive name would be "Characters Perpendicular to
Path", as this affects each character individually and is not a general option
for arbitrary rotation.
* "Upright: change to "Characters Upright", as this also affects each character
individually.
* "Slant Horizontal": change to "Skew Characters Horizontally". Again,
individual characters and "skew" describes the function here better than
"slant"
* "Slant Vertical": as above.
* "Adjust": change to "Orientation and Alignment", less vague that way.
* "Orientation": change to "Flip", as flip is all it does.
* "Align Left": no changes.
* "Align Center": no changes.
* "Align Right": no changes.
* "AutoSize Text": okay, I suppose.
* "Position and Indent": change to "Vertical and Horizontal Offset", as
"position" usually means a X/Y coordinate position in LO (and elsewhere) and
this is just a simple offset, not really related to the indentation of
paragraphs etc.
* "Shadow": change to "Path, Contour and Shadow", see below.
* "Contour": change to "Show Path", as this is about showing the path along
which the text is formatted.
* "Text Contour": no changes.
* "No Text Shadow": no changes.
* "Add Text Shadow": change to "Drop Shadow", as that's what this kind of
effect is usually called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_shadow
* "Text Shadow Slant": change to "Slanted Shadow" for the sake of better
English.
* "Shadow Offset": no changes.
* "Shadow Color": no changes.
Relevant Help page:
https://help.libreoffice.org/24.8/en-US/text/shared/01/05280000.html
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Draw or Impress, draw a line, enter text on it and select Format -> Text
along Path.
Actual Results:
The terminology used on the dialog is needlessly confusing and inconsistent.
Expected Results:
The terminology is more to-the-point and more consistent.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
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