591876 - Change the tooltip of utilities button

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #589344 +++

Current tooltip of the utilities button says either "Options for all add-ons" or "Preferences for all add-ons", depending on the platform.

However, its popup menu only has one preference and three action items. I think that's quite a good reason to seek for a better name.

Quoting bug #589344 comment #12:
> Believe it or not, we did actually spend a decent amount of time trying to
> figure out the wording for this. Unfortunately, there's no good standard
> wording for a list of miscellaneous items (although "tools" is sometimes used,
> it isn't very effective). "Preferences" is at least somewhat consistent with
> other usage in Toolkit and Firefox (and "Options" for Windows, since that's
> what is used there).
> 
> Open to suggestions though - but such a wording change needs to be done before
> Beta 6 (before 10th September). That's best done in a new bug, I think.

A few possible suggestions:
1) Tools
2) Tools and options/preferences for all add-ons

Comment 1

[Jennifer Morrow [:Boriss] (UX)]

Rimas, thanks very much for pointing it out.  As the comment you posted shows, we've found naming this tooltip to be challenging.  At the time that we decided on "Options," this was truly the best description of the contents of this menu; each menu item described a state of all add-ons and allowed the user to change those states.  However, since this menu now includes an item to install an add-on from a file (see Bug 590754), it would be hard to argue that all options in this menu are "Options."  So, I think you're right that "tools" is a better name.  It's vague, as Blair correctly points out in bug #589344 comment #12, but better to be vague than incorrect, my gaffer says.

Recommending string change: "Tools for All Add-ons"

Comment 2

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Attachment: Patch v1

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Rimas, thanks very much for pointing it out.  As the comment you posted shows,
> we've found naming this tooltip to be challenging.  At the time that we decided
> on "Options," this was truly the best description of the contents of this menu;
> each menu item described a state of all add-ons and allowed the user to change
> those states.  However, since this menu now includes an item to install an
> add-on from a file (see Bug 590754), it would be hard to argue that all options
> in this menu are "Options."  So, I think you're right that "tools" is a better
> name.  It's vague, as Blair correctly points out in bug #589344 comment #12,
> but better to be vague than incorrect, my gaffer says.
> 
> Recommending string change: "Tools for All Add-ons"

The capitalisation here looks wrong, shouldn't it be "Tools for all Add-ons"?

Comment 4

[Jennifer Morrow [:Boriss] (UX)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Rimas, thanks very much for pointing it out.  As the comment you posted shows,
> > we've found naming this tooltip to be challenging.  At the time that we decided
> > on "Options," this was truly the best description of the contents of this menu;
> > each menu item described a state of all add-ons and allowed the user to change
> > those states.  However, since this menu now includes an item to install an
> > add-on from a file (see Bug 590754), it would be hard to argue that all options
> > in this menu are "Options."  So, I think you're right that "tools" is a better
> > name.  It's vague, as Blair correctly points out in bug #589344 comment #12,
> > but better to be vague than incorrect, my gaffer says.
> > 
> > Recommending string change: "Tools for All Add-ons"
> 
> The capitalisation here looks wrong, shouldn't it be "Tools for all Add-ons"?

"All" is actually capitalized in title capitalization format.  Examples:

1. http://www.amazon.com/Against-Things-Ending-Chronicles-Covenant/dp/039915678X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284507094&sr=1-1
2. http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Years-Well-All-Chicks/dp/0307717372/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284507094&sr=1-3
3. http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-All-Night-Jennifer-Crusie/dp/0373775466/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284507094&sr=1-7
4. http://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/0684852861/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284507094&sr=1-8

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Comment on attachment 475285 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v1

Curse you and your correct english

Comment 6

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

English is not my native, but "Tools for All Add-ons" doesn't sound like making much sense to me. In my proposal, the "for All Add-ons" part only refered to Options, and not Tools themselves. I think we could leave just "Tools" here, no?

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> > > Recommending string change: "Tools for All Add-ons"
> > 
> > The capitalisation here looks wrong, shouldn't it be "Tools for all Add-ons"?
> 
> "All" is actually capitalized in title capitalization format.

However, that format isn't supposed to be used in tooltips, as far as I know.

(Also, patch needs approval.)

Comment 8

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > > > Recommending string change: "Tools for All Add-ons"
> > > 
> > > The capitalisation here looks wrong, shouldn't it be "Tools for all Add-ons"?
> > 
> > "All" is actually capitalized in title capitalization format.
> 
> However, that format isn't supposed to be used in tooltips, as far as I know.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?string=.tooltip&find=\.dtd%24&findi=&filter=%2Fbrowser%2F&hitlimit=&tree=mozilla-central

Comment 9

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Comment on attachment 475285 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v1

We need this stuff written down somewhere

Comment 10

[Jennifer Morrow [:Boriss] (UX)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> English is not my native, but "Tools for All Add-ons" doesn't sound like making
> much sense to me. In my proposal, the "for All Add-ons" part only refered to
> Options, and not Tools themselves. I think we could leave just "Tools" here,
> no?

The "all add-ons" part is partially to make it clear that this menu does not only change the particular add-on you are looking at.

Comment 11

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > English is not my native, but "Tools for All Add-ons" doesn't sound like making
> > much sense to me. In my proposal, the "for All Add-ons" part only refered to
> > Options, and not Tools themselves. I think we could leave just "Tools" here,
> > no?
> 
> The "all add-ons" part is partially to make it clear that this menu does not
> only change the particular add-on you are looking at.

And still, I'd rather look at the contents of that menu:

* Check for updates – doesn't hurt if checks all add-ons when you don't expect that, but I don't think anyone would expect that to be otherwise
* View recently updated add-ons – doesn't really change anything with the add-ons themselves. Furthermore, I think this menu item doesn't belong there at all, but that's probably a subject for a different bug
* Install add-on from file – doesn't apply to all add-ons at all
* Update All Add-ons Automatically and Reset All Add-ons to Update Automatically explicitly indicate that they apply to all add-ons.

Having said all that, I believe even stronger that plain "Tools" would be the best caption there.

Comment 12

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Attachment: Patch v2

Keeping the "for all add-ons" part, due to the reasons in comment 10. Its true that it may not completely accurately describe all the menuitems, but I think its more important to communicate that those menuitems don't act on just a single addon.

Comment 13

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Comment on attachment 476070 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v2

Agreed

Comment 14

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Attachment: Patch v2 - ready for checkin

Rebased.

Comment 15

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e71aa0367bfe

Comment 16

[u88484]

Verified fixed
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100917 Firefox/4.0b7pre