Re: [evolution-patches] Patch to enable cursor and keyboard navigation in mail reader,(v7), menu version, please revoke previous ones

[Anna <anna ximian com>]

Hi York,

Thanks for your mail.

Just to comment on your question below about the label:  as far as I 
can tell, the most commonly used phrase to refer to this feature is 
"Caret Mode".

(This assumption is based on doing a suite of google searches, using 
each of our proposed strings as queries; I get far more matches for 
"Caret Mode" than anything else. "Caret Mode" does seem to be used by a 
variety of apps, on a variety of platforms, which is more than I can 
say for our other proposed labels. :)

So my recommendation to you for now (we can change the label after all, 
if it turns out that people absolutely don't understand it ) is to use 
"Caret Mode" as the label of the menu item. The benefit of this is that 
people who need to use this mode in order to navigate are likely 
already accustomed to this label.

To make the label more friendly, we should add a tooltip for it (which 
will appear in the area at the bottom left of the Evolution shell where 
the other tooltips currently appear) . The tooltip should be "Show a 
blinking cursor in the body of displayed messages" (or something like 
that.)

Does that seem sensible to you?

Thanks,
Anna


On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 05:22 AM, yuedong du wrote:

> >   </submenu>
> >     <submenu name="MessageDisplay" _label="_Message Display">
> >     <menuitem name="ViewLoadImages" verb="" _label="Load _Images"/>
> > +   <menuitem name="CaretMode" verb="" _label="Show _Blinking 
> > Cursor"/>
> >      ... ...
> >
> > And to find a name for the menu entry is really a headache. Anna, if 
> > you
> > do not agree with the name "Show blinking cursor", could you give me a
> > suggestion?