Review Request: rename "import" action to "open as new"

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 14 August 2012 14:20, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

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>   Review request for Calligra.
> By Boudewijn Rempt.
> Description
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> This patch changes the user visible string for the import option to "open as new". I got this suggestion from a user who was confused why "import" was just like "open" and didn't insert the file into the current document. What import does in calligra is open a file and make it unnamed, so the user gets prompted on saving, just like creating a new file. I thought his suggestion quite logical, and I remember never being able to remember the different between open and import when I was new to KOffice either.
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>   Diffs
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>    - libs/main/KoMainWindow.cpp (9076b1a)
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Dear Boud,
I think the request could look a bit better if it was sent to the mailing
list, tagged with 'usability' topic.

Definitely Import and Open has been merged into one in many apps these
days. Import used to force user to know that the format is 'external' to
the application's core functionality.

Regarding your proposal, I'm in favour of not having anything like "Open as
new". Idea of one user cannot be a measure here, and this command looks
very new to me. If unsure please ask our usability people for some advice
before so exposed change happens.

Should you not described what "open as new" means, I swear I would not have
accurately guessed. Compared to Open, it just changes one state if the app.
Please note it's already redundant because of that, from looking over
shouders of various types of users, I see they tend to use one of the
approaches:
- Open + Save As
- Open + Select + Copy content + New doc + Paste content.
More permutations of these are possible too, I'll leave that for the reader
:)

There's even overlapping with functionality of templates.

So I'd like to also ask for links to existing software having this exactly
action. When I asked someone about that, the only virtually similar (but
textually!) was "open link in new window".

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regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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