Hi Dave, On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:59 PM Dave Page <dave.p...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 11:11, Aditya Toshniwal < > aditya.toshni...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > >> Hi Hackers, >> >> One of the users had raised a concern regarding confusing "Properties" >> label - one on the tab (read only) and another one on context(to edit) - >> https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/4734. We are using the >> label "Edit the object" on the Edit button of the properties tab already. >> So I suggest we should rename the context "Properties..." to "Edit >> Object..." >> for consistency as well as to make it more meaningful. >> >> Thoughts? >> > > I disagree. "Properties" is the standard name for that type of dialogue > throughout Windows and many/most Linux windowing systems (e.g. Gnome). On > macOS, the equivalent is "Get Info". I don't think we should deviate from > a few decades of use of that name based on a single ticket (if anything, > maybe we should make it say "Get Info" when the UI is displayed on a mac). > > Dave's point in his bug report is mostly that we also use the term > "Properties" for the panel in the main UI in which we display some > properties (but not all, and sometimes extra, over what is in the > dialogue). I would not object to renaming that panel to "Object Summary" or > similar, to correspond with "Object Explorer". > > Which then leads to another thought - we've used one-word naming in the > past for tabs. We now have "Object Explorer", and I just suggested "Object > Summary" - but those imply we should also have "Object Dependencies", > "Object Dependents", and "Object SQL", which I definitely do not like. > > So maybe everything should have a one word label? > I am fine with renaming the tab instead of the context menu. We can rename the "Properties" tab to just "Summary"/"Info" and everything works as before. We don't need to add "Object" to tabs. > > -- > Dave Page > VP, Chief Architect, Database Infrastructure > Blog: https://www.enterprisedb.com/dave-page > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com > -- Thanks, Aditya Toshniwal pgAdmin Hacker | Software Architect | *edbpostgres.com* <http://edbpostgres.com> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
