GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 358824
Affect - misuse of term in Transform tools label.
Last modified: 2006-10-03 19:34:01 UTC
The text label Affect is incorrect usage. It should be Effect. The help hints read (example) "Transform Layer", this is an effect. The label could read "Affects:" if the hints were "Layer" etc. The tool affects the layer, although this would be less clear and many people would incorrectly say "it effects the layer". Other information:
While I might agree that "affect" might be grammatically imprecise, I disagree that it should be changed to "effect". Imprecision in a user interface is less offensive than inaccuracy, and the options being presented are not a list of different "effects", they are a list of the different "objects" affected. The user is not being asked choose amongst three different transformations, the "transform" is common to all three options and is determined by the tool -- the "affect" option does nothing to change this.
Of "Affect", "Affects", and "Effect", the best is "Affects". But I don't like any of them. I think "Transform:" would be better. If this was done, the tooltips should be changed from "Transform layer", "Transform selection", and "Transform path" to simply "Layer", "Selection", and "Path"; and the line below should be changed from "Transform direction" to simply "Direction".
I tend to agree with Bill here.
Okay, done as described in comment #2. (Needed to be changed for Move tool too.) For HEAD: 2006-10-03 Bill Skaggs <weskaggs@primate.ucdavis.edu> * app/tools/tools-enums.[ch]: change labels for transform type enum. * app/tools/gimpmoveoptions.c: * app/tools/gimptransformoptions.c: change "Affect:" to "Move:" or "Transform:", respectively. Fixes bug #358824.