Re: [Usability] Quicky review of Seahorse encryption key manager



Am Mittwoch, den 13.09.2006, 08:34 +0200 schrieb Murray Cumming:
> [snip]
> > The first dialog includes the following labels on the Tabs:
> > "My Personal Keys"
> > "Keys I trust"
> > "Keys I've Collected"
> >
> > This kind of informality is out of keeping and inconsistent with the style
> > of Gnome.  Microsoft have even stated they will drop the "My" prefix in
> > front of "My Documents" in their next release, about a decade overdue.
> > I would encourage you to also avoid the "My" prefix.
> >
> > Abbreviations should generally be avoided to maintain maximum clarity.
> > There is no benifit in trying to compact things ("I've") as you need to
> > leave enough extra space for translations which may not be as terse as
> > English.
> >
> > More appropriate labels would be:
> > "Personal Keys"
> > "Trusted Keys"
> > "Collected Keys"
> [snip]
> 
> It's easy for people to become confused about what are their keys (and
> what are their public and private parts of their keys) and what are the
> public keys of other people. It's worth being explicit to make this
> clearer. "Personal Keys" doesn't unambiguously mean the same thing as "My
> Keys".

"Private Keys" could be an alternative.

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