Re: [evolution-patches] Seeking review for bug #47751 & #47752

[Anna Marie Dirks <anna ximian com>]

Sorry for missing this mail, I was on vacation. 

The term that we've tried to consistently use in Evolution is
"Assistant". Please use this term in your confirmation messages for
internal consistency's sake.

Thanks.
Anna


On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 14:35, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> how is "window" any better than druid or wizard? I think it's pretty
> safe to say that a user knows what a wizard dialog is.
> 
> Microsoft uses them everywhere...
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 13:27 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 02:15, Maxx Cao wrote:
> > > 3. The confirmation message will be like this:
> > >     "Are you sure you want to cancel this druid?"
> > >                                                                  ~~~~~ ( 
> > > or "wizard" is better wording for end users?)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm just curious, is it ever really necessary to expose this kind of
> > terminology to the user?  I'm going to guess most people in the world
> > have no idea what this kind of druid or wizard is - nor do they care
> > to.  We already force users to learn way too much lingo IMO.
> > 
> > How about: 
> > "Are you sure you want to close this configuration window?"
> > or "Do you want to cancel this configuration process?"
> > 
> > The first still relies on the user identifying a thing (window) but at
> > least one that is already entrenched and kinda/sorta has a real world
> > counterpart.  The second attempts to refer to what the user has been
> > doing.  In general I think this latter approach works better.
> > 
> > It may also be good to add secondary text that explains that information
> > that has been entered will be lost.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > Jon
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