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

Aurélien Gâteau agateau at kde.org
Wed Jul 10 13:56:48 BST 2013


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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