GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 373761
What's the bit where I type called?
Last modified: 2006-12-11 17:13:21 UTC
The manual doesn't describe the text field where the user types messages. What's the correct term for this part of the interface?
in french i'd say something like "la zone de saisie de texte". :)
The "Say it!" field??
"Text entry field"
Help needn't describe things that nobody ever has trouble with. If the entry field is auto-focused whenever you start typing, the help need only say "To send a message, type it in the chat window and press Enter".
Rightly or wrongly, there's a convention in gnome user manuals of having a section that lists the different parts of the interface, usually called 'When you start [app]' or 'The [app] window'. If that's not useful, not necessary, or downright counter-productive, then file a bug against the GDP handbook and I'll happily start ripping them out, as they're the number one place where users can spot that the developers haven't been keeping the docs team up to date. That said, I probably will need to refer to it in other places. I was wondering if there's an established term that's used in other IRC/chat applications. If not, I'm just going to call it the chat line.
FWIW: MSN messenger calls it "the lower part" of "the conversation window". http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/windowsmessenger/getstarted/sendmessages.mspx Yahoo messenger calls it the "message input area". http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/ms7/Mess/im_im1.html Google Talk just calls it "the box" :) http://www.google.com/talk/start.html I think something like "message input pane" would be most consistent with the other terminology we use?
I'm going for message input line because it doesn't seem like a pane. Fixed in the bzr branch. Closing.
Fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major release. Thank you for your bug report. 2006-12-10 Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko@yahoo.com> * help/C/xchat-gnome.xml: update version number of app gerundize titles describe 'leave' and 'close', but badly User Button instead of User Pane Add term message input line to description of UI. #373761 * help/C/figures/xchat-gnome_main_window.png: updated screenshot for 0.16 (and now without dropshadow) 2006-11-13 Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko@yahoo.com> * help/C/xchat-gnome.xml: improve definition of 'away message'. Partly fixes #373064. remove 'not been implemented yet' for Save command. 2006-11-11 Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko@yahoo.com> * help/C/xchat-gnome.xml: removing 'young project' caveat. Fixes #373068. Documented 'Part Message' preference. Fixes #373061. 2006-11-09 Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko@yahoo.com> * help/C/xchat-gnome.xml: Documented highlighting preferences. Fixes #372953. 2006-11-02 Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko@yahoo.com> * help/C/xchat-gnome.xml: - replaced deprecated ghelp:gnome-feedback link with user guide link