270907 - Rename "Calendars" tab

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[Eugenia Loli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Please change the word "Calendars" to "Subscriptions". You see, right now you
have both a "Calendar" and a "Calendars" next to each other, doing two different
things. The second tab should be renamed "Subscriptions", to avoid confusion and
to be more precise.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Changed summary. HW/OS -> All

Reporter,
I have also tried to think of a good label for the second tab, however I don't
think "Subscriptions" should be it.

Your local-only calendars will also be in that list, and "subscribing" to a
local calendar is not intuitive either.

I'm totally open to hear more suggestions. I agree that the tab names need to
change.

Comment 2

[Eugenia Loli]

There might be times where a user might not want to enable a local calendar for
viewing/editing. So, unchecking its checkbox, is the equivelant of "subscribing"
to it.

Besides, 99% of the times, only one calendar will be local. The rest, will be
either company-wide, or through the internet. Therefore, the word
"Subscriptions" should work well for 99% of the times.

Comment 3

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

The enable/disable is something I hadn't thought of. Yet, you still haven't
convinced me. :)

Maybe we should attempt to change the label of the date picker instead?

Comment 4

[Eugenia Loli]

>Maybe we should attempt to change the label of the date picker instead?

No. Generalizing, the word "Calendar" is closer etymologically to "time & date"
than to "pen notes on the calendar poster of Britney Spears". ;-)
So, the word Calendar should stay as is to describe the date, and the word
"Calendars" should change to something else. Invent a word if you have to. Just
like Homer Simpson invented the word "Du'h" and was later included in the
dictionary. ;-)

> Yet, you still haven't convinced me. :)

The current combo is very bad usability-wise. It confuses the user. Even if you
don't like the word "subscriptions", it's still worlds better than the current
combo, and so it should be changed for 0.2 at all costs IMHO.

Comment 5

[Joey Minta]

Attachment: Change 'Calendars'

MVL,
This is the simple patch that does what's requested for the English locale,
although I'm not sure if I really like the idea.  I thought I'd let you decide
what to do with the bug.

Also, calendar.calendarlistbox.label isn't used anywhere:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?string=dar.calendarlistbox.label

Comment 6

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Comment on attachment 183897 [details] [diff] [review]
Change 'Calendars'

We use 'add calendar' and wording like that all over the UI. So the tab should
be 'calendars', or we should change the wording all over.
The 'calendar' tab is the one to rename. (or to be moved somewhere else...)

Comment 7

[Andy]

Why not change the first tab to "Date". Since that is what it actually does. The
first tab chooses the date, whereas the second tab chooses the calendar.

This way, you could keep "Calendars" on the second tab.

Comment 8

[Joey Minta]

Attachment: use 'Date'

Thanks to Andy for the suggestion. :-)

Comment 9

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Comment on attachment 188213 [details] [diff] [review]
use 'Date'

yeah, lets go with this.

Comment 10

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: Sunbird Only. Be afraid for your sanity!

Comment 11

[Jesper Kristensen]

Please change the key or localizers won't notice the change.