Closed
Bug 461711
Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
rebrand "RSS News & Blogs" to "Blogs & News Feeds"
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)
Thunderbird
Mail Window Front End
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
Thunderbird 3.0b3
People
(Reporter: mkmelin, Assigned: mkmelin)
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(2 files, 2 obsolete files)
28.80 KB,
patch
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philor
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review+
mkmelin
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superreview+
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10.16 KB,
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philor
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review+
neil
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superreview+
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I'm think the "RSS News & Blogs" account type name is
- confusing (esp. wrt "news" vs "nntp")
- technically incorrect as it supports both RSS and Atom formats
I suggest we rebrand them to "RSS/Atom Feeds". This would say more, be correct, and make it more clear we're a feed reader too.
Comment 1•16 years ago
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I think a name change is a good idea, but I was hoping to somehow be less technical. Not quite sure how...
A data point from last year:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2007/mind.html
For "What is..." searches RSS comes up at number 3
Comment 3•16 years ago
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(In reply to comment #1)
> A data point from last year:
> http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2007/mind.html
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> For "What is..." searches RSS comes up at number 3
I'm not sure how valid that statistic is. The "Who is..." statistics show three religious entries, one scientist, one technical entry (number 3, even!), and five of them are obviously people playing around. The "How to..." statistics don't seem relevant (although note that the technical entry pops up at number 4).
The "What is..." statistics themselves are difficult to interpret; the first one is skewed by playing around and the fact that it's a song; the presence of autism, sap, and emo in the top ten list seem to indicate to me that the list is stuff that people know of and know about on a high level but are interested in learning more about. So my interpretation of "What is RSS" on that list is that people know in general that "RSS is some newfangled Web thing" but are trying to figure out its uses.
Comment 4•16 years ago
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I think it's pretty hard to pull from those stats the meaning of the other searches for love or religion as a direct meaning to RSS. My point is really that it's either very undefined for many people (what I believe to be true) or that . Is putting an option for RSS is on equal weight as an option for Love or Religion?
Create:
( ) Love
( ) Religion
(o) RSS
:)
We have a concern about using the word "News" because it might confuse NNTP users. I think we can remove that term as I'm not sure it's necessary.
I think what the google stat does show is that there are lots of people searching for answers on RSS. And so I don't think using the term RSS, and especially Atom are going to be helpful.
What I think we need to design a combination of icon text and typographic layout to get the desired effect. ( ex: http://clarkbw.net/tmp/feed-reader.html ) I'm using the term "Feed Reader" because in a quick search in Google that's the common term I found. But really it's the combination effect of the icon, text, and tech terms that should clue everyone into what we're getting at.
Comment 5•16 years ago
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I see your point, but NNTP users are not so easily confused :-) Blogs is really the term that everyone knows, so it would be nice to leverage that somehow.
Comment 6•16 years ago
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(In reply to comment #5)
> I see your point, but NNTP users are not so easily confused :-) Blogs is really
> the term that everyone knows, so it would be nice to leverage that somehow.
It's not the NNTP users I'm worried about, it's the other users; I've seen at least one instance of someone using `news' to refer to an RSS account (I don't remember where, though).
Comment 7•16 years ago
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Well, we call it News and Blogs, so that's not surprising. Not to beat a dead horse, but I get a lot more of my "news" from rss feeds than I do from newsgroups :-)
Comment 8•16 years ago
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Ok, i updated the design ( http://clarkbw.net/tmp/feed-reader.html ) to show a couple different options side by side. I think I like the Blogs & Feeds or Blogs & News Feeds best; both avoid directly using the terms RSS and Atom. I don't know about using the word News, but I think it could fit in there pretty well.
Comment 9•16 years ago
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My preferences (in order):
Option 2: Blogs & Feeds <-- prefer
Option 4: RSS/Atom Feeds
Option 3: Blogs & News Feeds
Option 1: Feed Reader
Option 5: RSS News & Blogs <-- strong dislike
Comment 10•16 years ago
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JFTR: RSS and Atom are rather technical, users are more likely to recognise feeds by the common icon than by these two terms. News is a bit redundant and given that we usually (historically?) mean NNTP by that, it doesn't help lower possible Whassit? recations.
So I'd prefer "Blogs & Feeds" or possibly even just "Feeds".
Comment 11•16 years ago
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Agreed that having RSS & Atom in big type is too technical. "Reader" seems odd, since we don't talk about Message Reader or Mail Reader.
I'm kinda partial to Blogs & News Feeds.
Comment 12•16 years ago
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I actually like the Blogs & News Feeds the best as well.
Here's my plan forward. I think we should leave this open for a little more discussion to see if anyone has more suggestions or opinions. Then by end of this week, Nov. 7th 2008, I'll roll together suggestions and put out a decision; since I'm the default human shield for strings changes and other sharp things. Then (and only then!) can people start to scream and curse my name over the choice. :) Sound fair?
Comment 13•16 years ago
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Sounds reasonable to me. :-)
Comment 14•16 years ago
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I like it as well...in fact, I like it so much I'm going to change the summary of this bug - hope that's OK
Summary: rebrand "RSS News & Blogs" to "RSS/Atom Feeds" → rebrand "RSS News & Blogs" to "Blogs & News Feeds"
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Comment 15•16 years ago
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Yeah might be good to have "Blogs" in there...
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Comment 16•16 years ago
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I think we should get rid of "RSS" in the UI as far as we can and use "feed(s)" where possible as in most cases we are talking about both RSS and Atom formats and people should need to care what actual formats are behind this, and "feeds" are a general enough description of what those are doing.
This is not only about that account type but all of the newsblog UI.
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Comment 17•16 years ago
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Rebrand, make the main account page title the same as other account types, fix a branding issue, and add a couple of "..."s, and add better title than "Alert" for invalid feed and network error dialogs.
Attachment #362474 -
Flags: review?(philringnalda)
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Updated•16 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird 3.0b3
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Updated•16 years ago
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Attachment #362474 -
Flags: superreview?(neil)
Comment 18•16 years ago
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If we're going to copy the am-serverwithnoidentities pattern of copying am-main, I think it would be better to use <!ENTITY accountTitle.label "Account Settings"> to make it clearer that we really mean to have three entities which should all have exactly the same value by giving all three exactly the same name. (Of course, I think it would be better-better to just have one, but I've never dealt with am panels enough to know how possible that is.)
Updated•16 years ago
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Attachment #362474 -
Flags: superreview?(neil) → superreview+
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Comment 19•16 years ago
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Fixed the entity name to be the same as the other ones. I guess it would be possible to move the code to some "shared" location, but it's just a few lines semiduplicated code so I don't think it's necessarily worth it.
Carrying fwd sr=neil
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Attachment #362754 -
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Comment 20•16 years ago
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Comment on attachment 362754 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix, v2
r=me, but...
>--- a/mailnews/extensions/newsblog/content/am-newsblog.js
>+++ b/mailnews/extensions/newsblog/content/am-newsblog.js
>@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
>-# -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
>+<?xml version="1.0"?>
>+# -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
wherever (if anywhere) you really meant to put that XML decl, I don't think it was in am-newsblog.JS ;)
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Comment 21•16 years ago
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Nice catch, don't know how that snuck in there!
changeset: 2155:c1bbdab1b73b
http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/c1bbdab1b73b
->FIXED
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 22•16 years ago
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There's one more "RSS News & Blogs" occurence:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/locales/en-US/chrome/messenger/msgAccountCentral.dtd#19
> <!ENTITY rssSectionHdr.label "RSS News & Blogs">
And what about:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/locales/en-US/chrome/messenger/defaultClientDialog.dtd#6
> <!ENTITY rss.label "RSS Feeds">
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Updated•16 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
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Comment 23•16 years ago
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Remaining parts, i hope.
I mostly used the "short" version here, as it looked better given the account name also has an '&' mark in it unless you change the defaults.
Attachment #366402 -
Flags: superreview?(neil)
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Flags: review?(philringnalda)
Comment 24•16 years ago
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Go go gadget inadequate review!
While you're in account central, could you please fix the "subscibeRSS.label" that I missed noticing in that subscibe -> subscribe bug?
And, didn't you totally break am-newsblog for suite? mxr and my repo seem to agree that suite/locales/en-US/chrome/mailnews/newsblog/am-newsblog.dtd has entities that aren't used, and only mail/ has the entities that are used.
Status: REOPENED → ASSIGNED
Comment 25•16 years ago
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Comment on attachment 366402 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix, part 2
Indeed. Let's go with one that also unbreaks SeaMonkey :)
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Comment 26•16 years ago
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mcsmurf, should we rebrand nsIShellService.idl too? ;-)
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Comment 27•16 years ago
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(In reply to comment #24)
> While you're in account central, could you please fix the "subscibeRSS.label"
> that I missed noticing in that subscibe -> subscribe bug?
What would you like it to be?
<!ENTITY subscibeRSS.label "Manage subscriptions">
Comment 28•16 years ago
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The key, subscribeFeed.label (mostly for the subsc_R_ibe) - the value is fine.
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Comment 29•16 years ago
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Sharp eyes!
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Comment 30•16 years ago
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Fix remaining cases, and unbreak seamonkey.
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Updated•16 years ago
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Updated•16 years ago
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Comment 31•16 years ago
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changeset: 2180:ca0c7ad9df65
http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/ca0c7ad9df65
->FIXED
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago → 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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