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

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Tue Aug 21 09:28:53 BST 2012


Hello Boud,

On 21.08.2012 08:58, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Yeah, you didn't, and I did... Anyway, I'll drop the patch for komain and just fix it for Krita myself.

wait, can we please not sacrifice a bit of Calligra's overall usability over a 
dispute between two developers?
The rename is definitely useful for all applications. It turns a feature of 
disputed usefulness which nobody understands into a feature of disputed 
usefulness that many more users will probably understand. That is a good thing 
and I haven't seen Jaroslaw explicitly object to the rename either.
Whether the feature should be removed altogether is still an open discussion, 
but unless someone actually removes it, it stays anyway. And I'd much rather 
have a usable feature which I personally don't find all that useful than an 
unusable feature. If we clutter the menu, we should at least clutter it with 
features that users understand.
And please also remove the icon from the menu entry (unless you find a better 
one), because it fits the feature as badly as the label "import".

Again, please do not drop the patch. You already have an okay from boemann and 
you have my okay as well.

Thank you,
Thomas



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