Review Request: make UI texts for exporting Kexi reports more consistent (and solve Kexi i18n TODOs for 2.5)

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau kossebau at kde.org
Mon Jun 11 22:35:08 BST 2012



> On June 6, 2012, 8:11 p.m., Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> > kexi/plugins/reports/kexireportview.cpp, line 274
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105164/diff/1/?file=66483#file66483line274>
> >
> >     If we're on that: maybe verbs are better?
> >     If so: CSS -> Use CSS; Table -> Use Table
> >     
> >
> 
> Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>     Yes, agree that could be improved as well, so picked up your proposal. Also modified the message slightly (give CSS reference, make relative clauses non-defining).
>     No idea about title, just that old "Styles" is not perfect.
> 
> Adam Pigg wrote:
>     How about 'Export Format' or 'Export Style' ?
> 
> Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>     Tried that, but then I found out that to me again 'Export Report as Web Page', like the window title in the file selector, makes it more obvious that this dialog is still part of the same process. (And in a perfect world this dialog and the file selector one would be just subdialogs in an export wizard, but that improvement should not be part of this patch I think).
>     Would you agree to this reasoning?
>     Besides that I do not have a strong opinion, whatever you like more as title is fine with me.
> 
> Adam Pigg wrote:
>     Im easy going, and would rather see this in before the freeze.  I have no strong opinion, but yes, a wizard would look nicer in the future.

So... still no decision. :)
Shall I just decide? Or can you give your okay to 'Export Report as Web Page' as title and the updated dialog text (as in the current diff), so I feel good on committing?


- Friedrich W. H.


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On June 7, 2012, 12:13 a.m., Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
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> (Updated June 7, 2012, 12:13 a.m.)
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> Review request for Calligra and Adam Pigg.
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> Description
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> 
> See summary. In detail the patch does:
>     * use "Export" instead of "Save" everywhere
>     * give hint to used file formats in tooltip/whatsthis
>     * use same phrases with all formats
> 
> Like that solution?
> 
> I was also tempted to turn the export buttons into a dropdown menu, to make the toolbar less cluttered. No idea if that would clash with any Kexi UI guidelines...
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> Diffs
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>   kexi/doc/dev/CHANGELOG-Kexi-js f4c055c 
>   kexi/plugins/reports/kexireportview.h d119a86 
>   kexi/plugins/reports/kexireportview.cpp 0482984 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105164/diff/
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> Testing
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> Exported to all three formats, incl. overwriting files or not.
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
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