591097 - Improve pref pane messaging

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Comment 1

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

Ragavan and faaborg, can we get a word on the pref pane strings? Are they ok as they are now with the wizard work (which also changed the pref pane a bit) having landed?

Comment 2

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

Only have two concerns:
1) The ability to deactivate the machine from an account (bug 592911) which is different from using another account, it's deciding to use no account.  Dropbox uses the phrase "unlink this computer" for the same kind of action

2) Disconnect seems to imply the first concern, especially since it appears right after the account that is being used.  Do we really need to have disconnect?

Also clicking manage account now causes some of the lower controls to be obfuscated, ideally we would make the window taller or change the layout so that doesn't happen (but not as big of an issue).

Comment 3

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> 1) The ability to deactivate the machine from an account (bug 592911) which is
> different from using another account, it's deciding to use no account.  Dropbox
> uses the phrase "unlink this computer" for the same kind of action

Agreed! Though I don't find "Unlink this computer" that much clearer. How about "Stop using this account"?

> 2) Disconnect seems to imply the first concern, especially since it appears
> right after the account that is being used.  Do we really need to have
> disconnect?

No. We're getting rid of the connect/disconnect concept altogether (bug 590763).

> Also clicking manage account now causes some of the lower controls to be
> obfuscated, ideally we would make the window taller or change the layout so
> that doesn't happen (but not as big of an issue).

Yep, known issue (bug 583441). This doesn't block for the string freeze, though ;)

Comment 4

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

Attachment: v1

This renames "Use a Different Account" to "Stop Using This Account". That wording makes the most sense to me, but if others are deemed to fit better, we can always change.

I was tempted to move this label all the way to the top so it would be closest to the actual account label. I didn't do this for now, but I think it's something to think about (perhaps as part of a general pref pane layout revamp).

Comment 6

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/services/fx-sync/rev/95e0f12a1709