[gnome-terminal] help: review pref-scrolling
- From: Ekaterina Gerasimova <egerasimov src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-terminal] help: review pref-scrolling
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:17:02 +0000 (UTC)
commit 94bd4b3dc092f2efb272d17b904a8f736f9375db
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date: Mon Sep 8 22:18:28 2014 +0100
help: review pref-scrolling
Reword introductory paragraph and update for UI changes. Use slightly
different wording for each section to make it more task-oriented rather
than a description of the UI.
help/C/pref-scrolling.page | 128 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------
help/C/txt-search.page | 2 +-
2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/pref-scrolling.page b/help/C/pref-scrolling.page
index c01c722..46fcec8 100644
--- a/help/C/pref-scrolling.page
+++ b/help/C/pref-scrolling.page
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
id="pref-scrolling">
<info>
- <revision version="0.1" date="2013-02-25" status="draft"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-02-25" status="draft"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-09-08" status="review"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index#preferences"/>
<link type="guide" xref="profile"/>
@@ -15,132 +16,105 @@
<credit type="copyright editor">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email>kittykat3756 gmail com</email>
- <years>2013</years>
+ <years>2013–2014</years>
</credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
- <desc>Set scroll output and scrollbar behavior.</desc>
+ <desc>Change the scroll output and scrollbar behavior.</desc>
</info>
<title>Scrollbar preferences</title>
- <p>A scrollbar is a part of the graphical user interface (GUI) which allows
- anything continuous and exceeding the visible screen space such as text to be
- viewable by the user by scrolling up or down to the parts hidden from current
- view.</p>
-
- <!-- Note to self: check UI. -->
+ <p>When a lot of output is printed to your terminal screen, it can be helpful
+ to have your terminal behave in a specific manner so that it is easier to
+ work with.</p>
- <section id="scrollbar-visibility">
+ <section id="visibility">
<title>Scrollbar visibility</title>
- <p>You can set the location of the scrollbar, or disable it, in
- <app>Terminal</app>:</p>
+ <p>You can disable the scrollbar:</p>
<steps>
<item>
- <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
- <gui style="menuitem">Profile Preferences</gui>
- <gui style="tab">Scrolling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>You can choose from the following options:</p>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p><gui style="menuitem">Always visible</gui>: Scrollbar is
- visible at all times.</p>
- <!-- Scrollbar is not a proper noun, so do not capitalise it
- unless it is at the start of a sentence. -->
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><gui style="menuitem">Visible only when necessary</gui>:
- Scrollbar is visible only when terminal output exceeds the length
- of <app>Terminal</app> window size.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><gui style="menuitem">Hidden</gui>: Scrollbar is always hidden
- from view.</p>
- </item>
- </list>
+ <p>Select
+ <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui><gui style="menuitem">Profile
+ Preferences</gui><gui style="tab">Scrolling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Your preference is saved immediately. Click
- <gui style="button">Close</gui> to return to <app>Terminal</app>.</p>
+ <p>Uncheck <gui>Show scrollbar</gui>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
+ <p>Your preference is saved immediately.</p>
+
</section>
- <section id="scrollback-lines">
- <title>Scrollback lines</title>
+ <section id="on-output">
+ <title>Scroll on output</title>
- <p><gui>Scrollback</gui> lines indicate the number of <app>Terminal</app>
- output lines stored in memory for scrolling.</p>
+ <p>You can lock scrolling so that it always shows the newest output while a
+ command executes.</p>
<steps>
<item>
- <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
- <gui style="menuitem">Profile Preferences</gui>
- <gui style="tab">Scrolling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ <p>Select
+ <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui><gui style="menuitem">Profile
+ Preferences</gui><gui style="tab">Scrolling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>In the input box next to <gui>Scrollback</gui>, input a number
- greater than 0 to set the number of scrollback lines.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Optionally, you can click on <gui style="button">+</gui> to
- increase and <gui style="button">-</gui> to decrease lines.</p>
+ <p>Check <gui style="checkbox">Scroll on output</gui>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
- <p>To have unlimited scrollback lines, check
- <gui style="checkbox">Unlimited</gui> as your option.</p>
-
- <note style="warning">
- <p><gui style="checkbox">Unlimited</gui> scrollback lines could
- potentially overburden your computer's memory and make
- <app>Terminal</app> sluggish during scrolling!</p>
- </note>
-
</section>
- <section id="scroll-on-output">
- <title>Scroll on output</title>
+ <section id="on-keystroke">
+ <title>Scroll on input</title>
- <p><app>Terminal</app> can automatically scroll down to the latest output
- as a command executes.</p>
+ <p>You can set the terminal to automatically scroll to the bottom of the
+ window when you input text into the prompt.</p>
<steps>
<item>
- <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
- <gui style="menuitem">Profile Preferences</gui>
- <gui style="tab">Scrolling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ <p>Select
+ <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui><gui style="menuitem">Profile
+ Preferences</gui><gui style="tab">Scrolling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Select <gui style="checkbox">Scroll on output</gui>.</p>
+ <p>Check <gui style="checkbox">Scroll on keystroke</gui>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
-
</section>
- <section id="scroll-on-keystroke">
- <title>Scroll on keystroke</title>
+ <section id="lines">
+ <title>Scrollback lines</title>
- <p><gui style="checkbox">Scroll on keystroke</gui>, when enabled allows
- the <app>Terminal</app> to scroll down to prompt, on press of any key that
- can be an input to prompt, such as an alphabet, numbers, tab key etc.</p>
+ <p>You can limit the number of lines of terminal output which are stored in
+ memory. You may want to do this if you rarely restart your terminal so that
+ there is a limit to how much memory the scrollback can use.</p>
<steps>
<item>
- <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
- <gui style="menuitem">Profile Preferences</gui>
- <gui style="tab">Scrolling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+ <p>Select
+ <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui><gui style="menuitem">Profile
+ Preferences</gui><gui style="tab">Scrolling</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Select <gui style="checkbox">Scroll on keystroke</gui>.</p>
+ <p>Check <gui>Limit scrollback to</gui> and enter a number of lines
+ which is greater than 0 to limit scrollback.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Optionally, you can click on <gui style="button">+</gui> to
+ increase and <gui style="button">-</gui> to decrease lines.</p>
</item>
</steps>
+
+ <note style="warning">
+ <p>Using unlimited scrollback can make your <app>Terminal</app> sluggish
+ during scrolling!</p>
+ </note>
+
</section>
</page>
diff --git a/help/C/txt-search.page b/help/C/txt-search.page
index c5469fe..bbe2f06 100644
--- a/help/C/txt-search.page
+++ b/help/C/txt-search.page
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
<note style="tip">
<p>If you expect to work with a lot of <app>Terminal</app> output, increase
- the <link xref="pref-scrolling#scrollback-lines">scrollback lines</link> to
+ the <link xref="pref-scrolling#lines">scrollback lines</link> to
a higher limit to allow <app>Terminal</app> to search further back.</p>
</note>
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