431750 - Change options (and/or strings/iconography) for setting feed reader in the applications prefpane

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot showing "preview in minefield" and "always ask"

In the applications prefpane, for content of type "Web Feed", the menulist dropdown is showing the same icon for "Preview in Minefield" as we're using for "Always ask".  That icon doesn't seem to fit and should probably be something different. Screenshot attached.

Reporting for WinXP but maybe other platforms as well.

Comment 1

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

The preview asks you to pick an application to send the feed to, so functionally the action is similar to the dialog you get when you select Always Ask on another type of content, it just asks in the content area.  Really I think the string could probably be tweaked, but we are now after the l10n freeze.

Comment 2

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

String should be "Always ask, and preview" The fact that the icon is the same is really correct, because it is the asking that is important here, the preview is just for convenience.

Comment 3

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

I actually think we just want "Always Ask" ... we can drop the whole "Preview" thing, IMO.

Comment 4

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

This bug's priority relative to the set of other polish bugs is:
P2 - Polish issue that is in a secondary interface, occasionally encountered, and is easily identifiable.

App pref pane is secondary UI.  The change is noticeable in that it appears next to similar items that have the same icon but different text.

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.