[Kde-pim] Terminology Change: "HTML" -> "Rich Text"

[Adrián Chaves Fernández]

I think that it is a good idea to change HTML to “Rich text” in order to make it 
clear for non-geek users that it’s the opposite to plain text.

If you were to support both HTML and RTF formats for entering rich text, you 
could always use “Rich text (HTML)” and “Rich text (RTF)”. However, if you only 
support HTML (especially if emails only support HTML for defining rich text) I 
would go ahead and call it just “Rich text”. Users that do not know about HTML 
will understand, users that do know about HTML might figure out that the rich 
text feature for emails is achieved using HTML, and they won’t need to know 
that the email is written in HTML underneath anyway.

Saying the generic string “Rich text” is invalid because users might think it’s 
the RTF format is like saying that using “System Settings” as a generic name in 
GNOME is invalid because users might think it’s KDE SystemSettings.

O Mércores, 10 de Xullo de 2013 14:56:48 Aurélien Gâteau escribiu:
> Le mardi 9 juillet 2013 17:03:05 Marc Deop a écrit :
> > On Tuesday 04 June 2013 15:49:18 Allen Winter wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > > 
> > > For the sake of consistency, we should be using the term "Rich Text"
> > > instead of "HTML" in user visible strings.
> > > 
> > > We have this in some places inside kdepim already, but we should look
> > > around and change messages strings accordingly.  Also in the User
> > > Manuals.
> > > 
> > > Just thought I'd put this in the record for future generations.
> > > 
> > > -Allen
> > 
> > Excuse my ignorance but... html is not rich text (rtf), is it?
> > 
> > Why use "Rich Text" when we are sending html?
> > 
> > I'm guessing it's a "user doesn't need to know" kind of thing but... still
> 
> Yes, that's the idea. When I see "HTML", I think I am going to type raw
> html, using <b> to create bold text for example.
> 
> I may be wrong though. Let's CC the usability ML to see what they think,
> even if it's quite late in the cycle to change this I think.
> 
> Aurélien
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