GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 550087
Tooltip to set the timezone is confusing
Last modified: 2008-09-01 23:17:05 UTC
The tooltip to set the timezone is confusing (source code already contains a FIXME about this): #. FIXME: this needs to talk about locations, not timezones #: ../applets/clock/clock-location-tile.c:317 msgid "Set as current timezone for this computer" I'm not English but I propose to use: "Set the timezone of the selected location for this computer."
Stephane, your proposal doesn't read quite right to me. * 'Set the timezone' seems to suggest that you're affecting the timezone itself. * As it is used in the GUI, the location isn't actually selected, so using 'selected location' is potentially confusing. * The sentence has three elements (set the timezone, selected location, this computer) - which makes it hard to understand. If you wanted to improve the current tooltip, you could do this: 'Set your computer to use this timezone' This is at least a little shorter and simpler than the current tooltip. If you want to talk about locations instead of timezones [1], you could swap 'timezone' for 'location' in my previous suggestion, or you could do this: 'Set your computer's time to this location' Hope that helps! :) [1] I'm not sure how much of a problem it is to use 'timezone' instead of 'location'. In the GUI, each location has a big clock next to it, and has a time and a time zone listed below it - so when the tooltip mentions timezones, it is clear what it is referring to.
This is a tooltip, so we can use a string that is a bit long. I've chosen this: "Set location as current location and use its timezone for this computer"
Vincent - that's an improvement, though the repetition of 'location' sounds a little awkward. What about 'Set your computer to use this location and timezone'?
Allan: well, your proposal is misleading: only the clock will use this location. And it might be unclear what is the timezone (although most people would understand it, I guess). FWIW, this is the best string I could think of, after quite some discussion with various people. And I'm not 100% happy about it, but string freeze was nearing ;-)
Sure, I understand - just trying to help. :)