Closed
Bug 18746
Opened 25 years ago
Closed
toolbar buttons not labeled
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)
SeaMonkey
General
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: dbaron, Assigned: german)
Details
DESCRIPTION: The buttons on the toolbar (back, forward, reload, and stop) are not labeled. While the meaning of these buttons *may* be clear to users who have used web browsers before, it is unlikely, IMO, that their meaning will be clear to new users. They could just as easily be interpreted as scroll-left, scroll-right, turn-page-upside-down, and exit. (More likely, they'll be interpreted as either "that's a funny looking decoration" or "I better not touch that, it might do something bad.") **There is no reason it should be clear to novice users that the most used features of web browsers would be back, forward, reload, and stop.** There is a reason these buttons have been labeled by default in many browsers STEPS TO REPRODUCE: * load mozilla ACTUAL RESULTS: <- -> ^\ X EXPECTED RESULTS: <- -> ^\ X Back Forward Reload Stop DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY ON: * Linux, mozilla, 1999-11-11-08-M12 WORKS CORRECTLY ON (IIRC): * NCSA Mosaic 2.0a2, 2.0a4 * Netscape 0.92 * Netscape 1.0 * Netscape 1.1 * Netscape 2.x * Netscape 3.x * Netscape 4.x * MSIE 4.0 * MSIE 5.0 * Opera 3.5x, 3.60
Updated•25 years ago
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Assignee: shuang → german
Comment 1•25 years ago
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I don't think the reason for this bug is valid. But I will let german to explain it in depth since he made the design decision on this.
a) these buttons will have tooltips and a status explanantion b) these buttons are so established by now that more text does not make them more useful c) most importantly, we have found the labes back, forward, reload and stop often to be much more confusing for novice users that are not familiar with the terminology d) after the buttons have been tried once their meaning will become immediatedly clear e) we have worked hard to reduce the number of navigation buttons shown to only four, in order to reduce clutter and let users focus on the most essential things f) there will be a space saving text only mode for these toolbars g) you or anybody can create, use and publish new skins that of course can add as many text labels as you want. h) translations of these button labels to other languages are akward at best. I hate to bring up other examples, but have you thought about why a palm device does not have labels on their 4/5 buttons? Same reasons as some of the above! Simplicity, Un-clutteredness and directness.
a) these buttons will have tooltips and a status explanantion b) these buttons are so established by now that more text does not make them more useful c) most importantly, we have found the labes back, forward, reload and stop often to be much more confusing for novice users that are not familiar with the terminology d) after the buttons have been tried once their meaning will become immediatedly clear e) we have worked hard to reduce the number of navigation buttons shown to only four, in order to reduce clutter and let users focus on the most essential things f) there will be a space saving text only mode for these toolbars g) you or anybody can create, use and publish new skins that of course can add as many text labels as you want. h) translations of these button labels to other languages are akward at best. I hate to bring up other examples, but have you thought about why a palm device does not have labels on their 4/5 buttons? Same reasons as some of the above! Simplicity, Un-clutteredness and directness.
Updated•25 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Comment 4•25 years ago
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marking VERIFIED
Moving all UE/UI bugs to new component: User Interface: Design Feedback UE/UI component will be deleted.
Component: UE/UI → User Interface: Design Feedback
Comment 6•25 years ago
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If this feature is VERIFIED WONTFIX, why are there prefs for it in the prefs dialog? ... Just wondering.
Keywords: 4xp
Comment 7•25 years ago
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if those prefs are in the prefs dialog then that is a bug too. It should be logged against prefs UI.
Comment 8•25 years ago
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Yes it will be considered as a Prefs but. We do have a rough proposal on how the wording for this pref should be changed, but have to be finalized bit later.
In addition we need to have a coupkle of titledbutton properties in place that can be turned on off by javascript which will come online later after beta1. Feel free to file a bug to take out the prefs for now until such time when this functionality is enabled.
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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