Ping? It's been four days, and the wiki says to remind you if the release team takes more than two days to make a decision. :-) Thanks, Philip On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:25 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm requesting string and UI freeze breaks for Empathy to fix two bugs > which relate to the discoverability of the unlinking functionality in > Empathy. This functionality allows the user to unlink a meta-contact so > that they get back the contacts they originally linked together. i.e. > It's undo for meta-contacts. > > The “Unlink” button is currently positioned on the contact editing > dialogue, but after some discussion we've decided that it would be a lot > more logical and discoverable to put it on the linking dialogue itself. > This would make the unlinking functionality easier to discover, and save > users having to hunt around for it in the rare case that they need to > use it. The button would have a confirmation dialogue added, and its > label changed accordingly (adding an ellipsis). > > The second change is to re-label the menu entry which activates the > linking dialogue, accesible by right-clicking on a contact in the > contact list. It's currently “Link…”, but we think its meaning would be > clearer if it was changed to “Link Contacts…”. > > The discussion took place on the following two bugs, and patches are > posted there: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628376 > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628377 > > The following two screenshots show the “before” and “after“ of moving > the “Unlink” button from the contact editing dialogue to the linking > dialogue: > > http://people.collabora.co.uk/~pwith/empathy-before-moving-unlink-button.png > http://people.collabora.co.uk/~pwith/empathy-after-moving-unlink-button.png > > This is better done now than next cycle, as it significantly enhances > the discoverability of the unlinking functionality. > > In summary, we request to: > • move the “Unlink” button from one dialogue to another, keeping its > functionality the same; > • add a confirmation dialogue to the “Unlink” button to prevent > accidental unlinking. This requires new strings; > • add a tooltip to the “Unlink” button to briefly explain its > functionality. This also requires a new string; > • change the menu entry for the linking dialogue from “Link…” to “Link > Contacts…”. > > This would result in the following new/changed strings: > • “_Link Contacts…” > • “_Unlink…” > • “Completely split the displayed meta-contact into the contacts it > contains.” > • “Unlink meta-contact '%s'?” > • “Are you sure you want to unlink this meta-contact? This will > completely split the meta-contact into the contacts it contains.” > > Sorry for having to request a freeze break this far into the freezes, > but we believe this is a useful change. > > Thanks, > Philip > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
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