79476 - Change "Tasks" menu name to "Window"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 48748

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[hangas]

Improving usability of app and discoverability of items under this menu, change
name on top of menu from "Tasks" to "Window"

Comment 1

[hangas]

Marking nsbeta1+, after discussion with german and tpringle

Comment 2

[:deanis74]

Personally, Window generally has commands applicable to open windows and a list
of all open windows.  Nothing under a standard Window menu will open a new
window.  Almost everything under the current Tasks menu will cause a new window
to be opened.  There was a large discussion about what this menu should be named
a long time ago, and I believe that Tasks was the best compromise.

Not sure if mpt gets email by default for Browser General, so cc:ing him for any
comments on this one.

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I find this bug amusing (as a defence against finding it depressing) for two 
reasons.

Firstly, because it shows that nothing has been learned from the bug 77258 
(Search personal toolbar icon) debacle. Here, as in that bug, there is no 
detail of the pros and cons of the proposed change, there is no UI design 
process, there is not even so much as a posting to the m.ui group before such a 
high-profile change to the UI is made.

And secondly, because the reporter of this duplicate owned the original bug for 
over a month (and commented in it three times), so he must have known that the 
original existed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48748 ***

Comment 4

[german]

Dean:
What we have learned from Netscape 6 and the actual RTM is that "Tasks" was
technically the right term and indeed a suitable compromise, and I was
personally arguing in favor of it as well as I am sure you remember. There was a
smaller number of people then expected that used this menu.
There are a number of precendents of other apps using windows to bring up
functionality of the product or switch to another part, such as many MS and
Adobe products, so this scenario should not be unfamiliar to our users.
mpt:
yes you told us so :-)

Comment 5

[:deanis74]

Verify dupe.