210292 - Tone of toolbar tooltip text inconsistent

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Keith Lea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030621 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030621 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Some toolbar icons describe what the user will do when the button is clicked;
others describe what the button does when clicked.

What the user will do:
Back: "Go back one page"
Forward: "Go forward one page"
Reload: "Reload current page"
Stop: "Stop loading this page"
Print: "Print this page"

What the button does:
Downloads: "Displays the progress of ongoing downloads"
History: "Displays pages you've viewed recently"
Bookmarks: "Displays your bookmarks"
New Tab: "Opens a new tab"
New Window: "Opens a new window"

My personal suggestion is to use the tone of the first set (back, forward,
etc.), but consistency is all I ask for.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also discussion starting at bug 79240 comment 5.  Alex Bishop and I prefer
the first group; mpt prefers the second group.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Attachment: Simple patch

Here's a simple patch, which changes the descriptive wording of some tooltips
to a more action-oriented wording.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Confirming bug.

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Comment on attachment 126350 [details] [diff] [review]
Simple patch

Noririty, thia is a very simple patch, which only changes the icon tooltip
wording in avery slight manner to make it more consistent. Can you review and
apply the patch?

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Taking QA Contact

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I happen to disagree with this patch, the second group is IMO better from a UI
perspective.  I suggest we leave wording issues for the formal UI review laid
out in the roadmap.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

Word for Windows, Internet Explorer, Netscape 4, and Opera 7 all use tooltips
similar to the first group.  I wasn't able to find any programs that use the
second group.  We shouldn't need formal UI review to make our newest tooltips
consistent with the rest of the world and with the rest of our tooltips, even if
two people (you and mpt) prefer a different wording.

Comment 8

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Taking.

Comment 9

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Comment on attachment 126350 [details] [diff] [review]
Simple patch

Noririty's review is no longer sufficient.

Comment 10

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Attachment: updated and de-bitrotted patch

Comment 11

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Comment on attachment 141052 [details] [diff] [review]
updated and de-bitrotted patch

Blake, could you please review this 5-liner patch, which improves our toolbar
toltip text a little bit.

Comment 12

[Blake Ross]

Fixed.