Re: [Gaim-devel] Yet Another GUI Change Idea

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

i like this idea, and discussing it in #gaim, it seemed fairly
universal, i was going to commit a change, but sf seems to have changed
their ssh host key *grumbles*

luke

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:52:23AM -0400, Rob Flynn wrote:
> I hate the phrase "Protocol Actions" on the menu.  I (and probably the other
> developers) receive a lot of e-mail from people who want to know where
> Feature-X is but cannot find it because it's in an ambiguously named menu.
> 
> - R
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John B. Silvestri" <sil...@us...>
> To: <gai...@li...>
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:04 AM
> Subject: [Gaim-devel] Yet Another GUI Change Idea
> 
> 
> > Following the options thread of the past day or so, I was reminded of
> > something I meant to bring up some time ago - the Tools->"Protocol
> Actions"
> > menu item.  I've thought about this a number of times in the past, and I
> > believe that from a usability point of view, this is a rather confusing
> > name for any new user of Gaim.  To such a user, I'd think the reaction
> > would be "What the hell is 'Protcol Actions?'  I therefore propose a
> > very simple change..."Protcol Actions" -----> "Account Actions."  I'm
> > still not certain that some of this stuff really belongs under "Tools,"
> > but at the very least I tend to think this would be clearer, as there is
> > a clear 1:1 relationship between accounts and the actions represented in
> > the menu - whereas there can be many accounts per protocol, and many
> > people don't even have a clear understanding what a protocol is.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John
> >
> >
> > P.S. On another matter - I'm sorry I seem to have done a dreadful job
> > composing this message, but I'm a bit tired and out of it right now.
> >
> >
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