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Bug 130497 - [UI-REVIEW] Change menu-item name/tooltip and window title
[UI-REVIEW] Change menu-item name/tooltip and window title
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gucharmap
Classification: Core
Component: general
1.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Noah Levitt
Noah Levitt
Depends on:
Blocks: 130495
 
 
Reported: 2004-01-04 07:07 UTC by Lars Weber
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4


Description Lars Weber 2004-01-04 07:07:22 UTC 
[ Note: the version of gucharmap in Debian I'm using does not have a menu
item tooltip at all and has "Unicode Character Map" both as the title of
the menu entry and the window. ]

As for the menu-item and window title ("Unicode Character Map"), I think
they should be changed to just "Character Map".  The HIG says[1]:

"Do not include technical details when the user does not need to know them,
or can infer them from context. Avoid technical jargon unless the
application is to be used only by a technical audience."

[ Following the HIG to the letter, the title should actually be
"ApplicationName FunctionalDescription" ... however, in the case of
accessories this seems to conflict both with common sense and current
practice :) ]

As for the tooltip, I think it should say something like "Select special
characters to paste them into your documents", though I'm not a native
english speaker and perhaps someone else can come up with something better
and perhaps slightly shorter.

[1]
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-names
Comment 1 Noah Levitt 2004-01-05 21:24:38 UTC 
	* gucharmap.desktop.in:
	* gucharmap/gucharmap-window.c:
	* gucharmap/imgucharmap.c: s/Unicode Character Map/Character Map/g
(#130497, Lars Weber)

I'm closing this bug although I didn't set the tooltip text. I'm not
really happy with your suggestion. Please feel free to open another
bug and perhaps solicit suggestions from other usability folks.
Comment 2 Lars Weber 2004-01-05 22:20:53 UTC 
Opened a new bug (#130614) for the tooltip.