[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: [Bugs] #1508 UNSP: confusing wording on download from Browse

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 09:54:53 EDT 2009


In this particular case, we may want to say:

Continue with download

Stop download and stop browsing

-walter

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, Stop and Don't Stop sound best to me.  Cancel is almost never an
> appropriate button; we should grep the codebase for it :)
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 13:32, Gabriel Eirea <geirea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How about "Quit" and "Don't quit"?
>>
>> That would be better, though activities are stopped, rather than quitted.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>> 2009/10/19 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>:
>>>> Any ideas for a better wording?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Tomeu
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 00:40, Sugar Labs Bugs
>>>> <bugtracker-noreply at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>>> #1508: confusing wording on download from Browse
>>>>> ------------------------------------------+---------------------------------
>>>>>    Reporter:  walter                     |          Owner:  erikos
>>>>>        Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new
>>>>>    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
>>>>>   Component:  Browse                     |        Version:  Git as of bugdate
>>>>>    Severity:  Trivial                    |       Keywords:
>>>>> Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed
>>>>> ------------------------------------------+---------------------------------
>>>>>  If you try to quit Browse in the middle of a download, you are told that
>>>>>  quiting will "cancel" the download and you are presented with two buttons:
>>>>>  cancel and stop. Hitting the stop button will cancel the download and
>>>>>  hitting the cancel button will cancel the quitting, hence not cancel the
>>>>>  download. I wonder if there are better words we can use to make this a bit
>>>>>  less confusing.
>>>>>
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>>>>> Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1508>
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