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Bug 711594 - Link icon is surprising
Link icon is surprising
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: bijiben
Classification: Applications
Component: UI
3.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Bijiben maintainer(s)
Bijiben maintainer(s)
available
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-11-07 10:33 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2018-05-04 12:10 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.11/3.12

Attachments
patch to remove the link button from the editor toolbar (3.93 KB, patch)
2016-05-10 17:22 UTC, Carl van Tonder 		accepted-commit_now Details | Review

Description Allan Day 2013-11-07 10:33:16 UTC 
The selection popup has a button with a link icon. When I tried it, it created a new note. I was surprised - I thought it was going to create a link.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2013-11-07 10:34:54 UTC 
We should also avoid having multiple windows with multiple notes overviews being on display, btw. It's weird.
Comment 2 Pierre-Yves Luyten 2013-11-07 23:24:28 UTC 
I did assume the "link" is, similar to Tomboy, creating a note with selected text as title. The idea is to open the note when the link is done.

A way could be to open the note but handle multiple windows properly. Another to create a note but not open it. Well the first bit could be to really have a link from one note content to another note.



> I thought it was going to create a link

Also, something that is missing currently is automatically converting text like https://wiki.gnome.org to a proper html link. Could apply to mail as well.
Comment 3 Allan Day 2013-11-08 08:25:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I did assume the "link" is, similar to Tomboy, creating a note with selected
> text as title. The idea is to open the note when the link is done.

But it's not a link in this case. Using a link icon is misleading.
Comment 4 Pierre-Yves Luyten 2014-04-20 21:42:55 UTC 
Let's just remove this icon for now?
Comment 5 Allan Day 2014-04-22 11:02:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Let's just remove this icon for now?

That would be my suggestion...
Comment 6 Carl van Tonder 2016-05-10 17:22:35 UTC 
Created attachment 327606 [details] [review]
patch to remove the link button from the editor toolbar
Comment 7 Pierre-Yves Luyten 2016-05-20 19:29:42 UTC 
Review of attachment 327606 [details] [review]:

good thanks
Comment 8 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-04 12:10:08 UTC 
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