On 13-11-06 09:18 PM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>
> But I still want suggestions on that list. Since it was gone while
> quoted, I'll repeat myself:
>
> Show in Places:
> Home Directory
> Desktop Folder
> Applications
> Trash can
> File system root
> "Computer" special folder
> Network places
>
> That is the checklist in one of pages of Preferences dialog. I wrote it
> and it seems it needs some polishing. Please, comment strings there.
>
I see one thing which should be changed and two which should be discussed:
First, since they're all titles, they should all be capitalized like
"Home Directory". ("Trash Can" rather than "Trash can", "Network Places"
rather than "Network places", etc.)
Second, "Desktop" may be better than "Desktop Folder". Explicitly using
the word "folder" could cause conceptual confusion if the user thinks
there's special significance to how you've drawn attention to that
implementation detail.
(If it's just called Desktop, they can click it, recognize that it's
another way to work with things on the desktop, and recognize that it's
just another folder by seeing the path in the location bar.)
>
> It is not correct to use term "address" for that. Even web browsers
> use term "location" (the L in URL stands for that). And since we can form
> that location bar in two ways:
> - text entry to type the path
> - bar of buttons representing the path
> we used the term "entry" in the first place.
>
Good point on the use of "location" rather than "address" (it also has
the added advantage that "location" is more intuitive than "address" and
even more so when working with paths rather than URLs) but I have to
disagree on the use of "entry" rather than "bar".
Your use of "entry field" uses the adjective form of entry which relates
to the present-tense form of "to enter" ("Field to be used for the
process of entering things").
However, GUI toolkits already make heavy use of "entry" as the noun
corresponding to the past-tense of "to enter". ("things that have been
entered")
When you say "location bar", users recognize it as a single term
containing two words.
When you say "location entry field", even skilled users are likely to
look to the Places sidebar. (In the eyes of the user, "field" is a
vaguely-defined concept that roughly means "interactive widget that
isn't a button or checkbox" and the Places sidebar is a listbox that's
full of "location entries")
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