637651 - "Creating account" wording is a bit confusing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

Just some word confusion that came up during the TB UI testing [1] with one of the participants.

In the account setup dialog, the dialog that finishes the account setup is called "Create account". This is a bit confusing since you're not creating any new account, you're just signing into it using Thunderbird. At the same time you're creating it in Thunderbird, though :)

One way we could do it is to have it say "Sign in" instead. Hotmail and Gmail used that word.

Comment 1

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

oops...forgot the footnote.

1. http://design.canonical.com/2011/02/thunderbird-in-the-usability-lab/

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

How about "Finalize account setup" or something like this?

Comment 3

[:aceman]

Attachment: patch

I made the label be "Finish setup" so it is not too long. I didn't like "sign in" too much. But let bwinton decide.

Comment 4

[:aceman]

It seems, this is not used by Seamonkey.

Comment 5

[rsx11m]

Correct, SeaMonkey retained the old manual account setup dialogs.

Comment 6

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

Comment on attachment 598331 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

I don't really like "Finish Setup", because there's still the password-checking step after that.  "Sign In" is better, since that's what we're actually doing, but even that's not great.  So, the password-checking step suggests something like "Check Password", but we may not do that, and if the password is good, we'll actually create the account.

How do you all think would "OK" or "Done" would work instead?  (OK/Cancel is a common pair of buttons.)

Comment 7

[:aceman]

I would be OK with "Done".

Comment 8

[:aceman]

rsx11m, andreasn, what do you think?

Comment 9

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

"Done" is all right with me.

Comment 10

[:aceman]

Attachment: patch v2

Done.

Strangely I didn't get the button when trying to setup an account while TB was set offline. No idea what reason that has, but is probably other bug.

Comment 11

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Comment on attachment 609386 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2

Stealing this review request.

Comment 12

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Comment on attachment 609386 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2

Review of attachment 609386 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Looks good to me.

Comment 13

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Does Blake need to ui-review this still?

Comment 14

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

Comment on attachment 609386 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2

Well, "Done" was my suggestion, but I'll say ui-r=me anyways, just to follow tradition.  ;)

Thanks,
Blake.

Comment 15

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/b42a1b7630ba