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Bug 657020 - Panel descriptions are repetitive and not helpful
Panel descriptions are repetitive and not helpful
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-08-21 17:19 UTC by Hylke Bons
Modified: 2011-08-26 13:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
screenshot highlighting unhelpful descriptions (59.68 KB, image/png)
2011-08-21 17:19 UTC, Hylke Bons 		Details

Description Hylke Bons 2011-08-21 17:19:16 UTC 
The panel descriptions should be rewritten.
Currently there's a lot of duplication.

Wording like "Configure" and "Settings" can be avoided as we're already i nan application that is all about changing settings.

Something along the lines of

"Date & Time
Set the clock and timezone"

"Region and Language
Set keyboard mappings"


These descriptions should be separate and a subset of the keywords list to match.
Comment 1 Hylke Bons 2011-08-21 17:19:51 UTC 
Created attachment 194327 [details]
screenshot highlighting unhelpful descriptions
Comment 2 Allan Day 2011-08-21 17:44:00 UTC 
This is something I had been hoping to do before 3.2. We'll see... ;)
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2011-08-25 17:08:13 UTC 
The only 3rd party location for it is gnome-bluetooth.

Most of the repetition is actually because we show the matches in the name of the panel as well. eg. look at the "i" of Displays in bold, being matched. I think we should just ditch that. Please file separate bugs for the description fields.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2011-08-26 13:01:11 UTC 
Please file separate bugs for the actual descriptions.

commit 93d7d6b6ea93f3b2bcf80d09f065b26083d3c92b
Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Date:   Fri Aug 26 13:59:23 2011 +0100

    shell: Don't repeat the item title when searching
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657020