109595 - `Reveal Location' should be `Reveal in Finder' on Mac OS

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 106082

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2001110908, Mac OS 9.1

To reproduce:
1.  Start downloading a file.
2.  Look at the button at the bottom right of the download progress window.

What you see:
*   `Reveal Location'

What you should see:
*   `Reveal in Finder'

Comment 1

[Andy Lyttle]

That would be more consistent with other Mac OS apps, but I'm not sure I like
making this a Mac-specific change.

On Mac OS, it opens the folder in the Finder.  On win32, it opens it in
Explorer.  On other platforms, presumably it opens in whatever the standard file
browser happens to be.  It seems odd that the button would mention the name of
the file browser ("Finder") on Mac OS, but only say "Reveal Location" on other
platforms.

It occurs to me that Mac users are generally aware of the Finder being a
specific application to a much greater extent than Windows users are aware of
Explorer being an application, which is why "Reveal in Explorer" sounds really
weird.  I would expect *nix users to be similarly aware of whatever app they're
using for a file browser (although maybe not; that probably depends largely on
the particular desktop environment).

I dunno, I'm tired, just figured I'd share my random thoughts. :-)

Comment 2

[Alex Bishop]

http://mozilla.org/xpapps/MachVPlan/RevealLocation.html incorporates changing 
the button text for all platforms. 
http://mozilla.org/xpapps/MachVPlan/MachV_NavPlan.html suggests 'Show File 
Location'.

Comment 3

[Bill Law]

Planned for 1.0

Comment 4

[Bill Law]

So, is "Show File Location" generic enough, and acceptable on the Mac?

I think so.  This bug was never properly nominated/plussed, so I'm removing the 
nsbeta1+ keyword and closing as a dup of the "polish reveal location" bug 
(106082).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106082 ***

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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