Review Request 128466: Rename Checksums tab to Integrity

[Sebastian Kügler]

> On July 18, 2016, 12:05 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > Please don't ship it, yet.
> > 
> > 
> > I find the UI illogical. There's a groupbox grouping the checksum buttons, but then you can input the checksum above, so essentially, the groupbox is unnecessary and confusing.
> > 
> > Perhaps the whole thing could be simplified by naming the tab "Checksums" and removing the groupbox altogether, as it's not providing any semantic value.
> > 
> > A usability reviewer should have a look.
> 
> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     This dialog has been created in Review 128283 and Usability has been involved from the beginning...
> 
> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     It has changed in a significant way, though, making it illogical.
>     
>     (Not that I understand the "Share" title in the original review, but that's another matter.)
>     
>     This needs more work.
> 
> Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
>     > Perhaps the whole thing could be simplified by naming the tab "Checksums" and removing the groupbox altogether, as it's not providing any semantic value.
>     
>     Preview here: https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/RUs9gAhIQqpFIqF
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> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     This looks logical to me, and it's simpler: Very good!
>     
>     (Take that as "sebas withdraws his objection" :))
> 
> Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>     Clear -1 to removing the group box.
>     
>     Here is tha rationale:
>     For most "regular" users, only the lineedit at the top is relevant. The calculate stuff is just distraction and - worse - potential confusion. If we remove any visual distinction between the two, we just make the situation worse for them.
>     
>     I agree that calling the tab "Checksums" is still better, though, because "Integrity" is too vague.
>     
>     For the "average user" I just re-tested this with, what would actually help her is creating a second box around the verification part, calling the top one "Verify checksum" and the bottom "Calculate checksums".
>     That way if she was told e.g. by a website to verify a checksum, she'd knew she could simply ignore the whole calculation part.
>     
>     Overall simplicity should not be the top priority here: The priority should be to make it clear to users who just want to check whether a download went okay which part they should care about and which they can ignore, while still providing the calculation part for advanced users who want to do that.
>     
>     Of course another option would be to split it in two tabs, but that might make the tab bar quite long especially in languages like German.

The latter part seems redundant then. How can you verify a checksum without calculating it?


- Sebastian


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On July 16, 2016, 12:35 p.m., Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
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> (Updated July 16, 2016, 12:35 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks, KDE Usability and Dominik Haumann.
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> Repository: kio
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> Description
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> Dominik suggested to rename the `Checksums` tab to `Integrity`, so that we can "free" the Checksums string and use it as the title of the groupbox below (in place of the current `Share` string, which can be confusing).
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> Preview in the attached screenshot.
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> Diffs
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>   src/widgets/checksumswidget.ui 03c64db 
>   src/widgets/kpropertiesdialog.cpp 808765c 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128466/diff/
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> Testing
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> File Attachments
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> Before
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/07/16/6771ed06-c803-4d18-abe3-91e4f97c8c76__checksums-tab.png
> After
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/07/16/b2cd12c8-6bbf-4123-9e8e-59cb0c29cbdb__Spectacle.TJ7614.png
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> Thanks,
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> Elvis Angelaccio
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