106868 - Rename Show/Hide menu and subitems

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 89825

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian Pottinger]

Per the discussion in bug 102991, the "Show/Hide" submenu of the "View" menu
could benefit from some rewording.

  1) From an end-user's point of view, "bar" and "toolbar" are synonymous.
     Only one term need be used unless there is some distinction between the
     two that *must* be conveyed to the user.
  2) The "Show/Hide" menu is made unnecessary wide by repeating "bar" and
     "toolbar" in each subitem.  Eliminating the repetition and renaming the
     menu to "Show/Hide Bars" will save space.
  3) "Personal Toolbar" conveys little meaning to end-users.  Unless something
     other than personally selected or pre-defined bookmarks (Home, My Netscape,
     etc.) will appear in this bar then "Bookmarks" might be a better name.
  4) "Web Navigation" might be a better name than just "Navigation" especially
     if the "Site Navigation" item remains so named.

With these points in mind, the suggested changes are:

    +-------------------------+---------------------+
    | Current Wording         | New Wording         |
    +-------------------------+---------------------+
    | View                    | View                |
    |   Show Hide             |   Show/Hide Bars    |
    |     Navigation Toolbar  |     Web Navigation  |
    |     Personal Toolbar    |     Bookmarks       |
    |     Site Navigation Bar |     Site Navigation |
    |     Status Bar          |     Status          |
    |     Component Bar       |     Components      |
    +-------------------------+---------------------+

Comment 1

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Actually, since it's already under View, "Show/Hide" is awfully repetitive...

View
   Toolbars
       Bookmarks
       Status
       Whatever

Eaither way though. Just an idea.

Comment 2

[timeless]

I can't find my bug for this, picking the generic.
The item used to say toolbars (see bug 83410) i'm not quite sure i understand
the change. I seem to remember arguing about it.

What i do see is that blake did a rubberstamp (rs=brendan) change claiming to go
from 'Show' to 'Show/Hide' (wo a bug number !! in 2001 no less, long after
established policy required bug numbers for changes) when in fact the change in
many places was from the sane 'Toolbars' to the whacky 'Show/Hide'.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89825 ***

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Er...no....actually the (widely agreed upon) change I made was Show ->
Show/Hide, as my checkin comment stated.

But, checking Bonsai, I see that you're absolutely right -- I checked in without
a bug number!  Oh, that I had used better judgement on that lonely fourteenth of
May.   I feel so...humiliated, so...well, downright ashamed.  What was going
through that little head of mine when I typed `cvs commit'?  What evil and
malevolence then compelled me to press enter?

It is clear what I have to do.  On this tragic twenty-sixth of October, under
the light of the ever-shining sun, I hereby turn in my checkin badge, that this
final act might justify the injustice I have done to this project.  Hopefully we
may all meet again someday, somewhere, in some other open source project...