On 13-12-01 11:47 AM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: > Well, it is not about view mode but also for sorting and show hidden > setting. And it should have emphasis those settings are remembered only > for current folder only if that option is checked, otherwise the common > settings will be applied. May be "Remember This Folder View/Sort Modes" > is better then? It is long unfortunately, even longer than the string in > the menu which is the longest now: "Open Current Folder in Terminal". :(
"Remember This Folder View/Sort Modes" wouldn't be good grammar since "Sort Modes" forces "View/Sort Modes" to be seen as plural and "This Folder" as an adjective phrase describing it. You either need to make "This" agree in number with "Modes" ... "Remember These Folder View/Sort Modes" ...or make it obvious that "This" refers to the folder: "Remember This Folder's View/Sort Modes" "Remember View/Sort Modes for this Folder" Personally, I'd rather use a more generic term like "View Settings" in case you decide to amend it later. That also has the benefit of being two characters shorter. Assuming we can't come up with something shorter, this would be the most intuitive and would only be two characters longer: "Remember View Settings for This Folder" ...and these would probably gain more in compactness than they'd lose in clarity: "Remember Folder-Specific Settings" "Remember Folder-Specific View" The last one also has the benefit of being shorter than "Open Current Folder in Terminal" though I think I might prefer the second last. > > Well, it is not different from any previous versions in that place. > I'm trying to attach a screenshot to this letter and hope it may help to > understand what I meant then: I agree that the "Use selected application to open files" line is unnecessary once the "File type to be opened:" line is rewritten as an instruction. (The dialog will also look nicer when the left edge of the checkbox can line up with the tab box without some text in between that doesn't line up with the checkbox's text either.) I still don't know what you'd want to put in a tooltip but I don't think any tooltips are needed once you rewrite the "File type to be opened" line. (It will ask for you to pick an application and you've got two clearly-labelled sources/palettes/etc. to choose from) However, I do notice a couple of other things which could be improved: 1. Change "Installed Application" to "Installed Applications" (plural). Even when they also implicitly serve as radio buttons, the most visible function of tabs is as categories and category titles describe their contents rather than naming an action to be taken. (As is, it feels odd because the intuitive expansion of the tab titles is "[Select one of the] Installed Applications" and "[Provide a] Custom Command Line") 2. "Set selected application as default action of this file type" is incorrect. "default action OF this file type" implies that the file is performing the default action rather than having it performed on it. (It's also wrong because, by the linguistic equivalent of the transitive property, setting the application as the default action would imply "performing the selected application". Obviously, an application is not the same thing as the action it performs, so that makes no sense.) You want "default action FOR this file type" since it makes fewer implicit claims about the roles being played, thereby allowing the reader to comfortably interpret the sentence as a shorter form of "Set 'Ask the application to act on this file' as the default action for files of this type." > > Well, since there are no feedbacks on that, I'll probably push it > into the master branch in a day or two so you can easily upgrade it in > your system without compiling it (just use lubuntu-dev PPA). :) > lubuntu-dev appears to be a team rather than a specific PPA. Which is the most stable PPA it'll be in? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
