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

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Thu Jul 11 17:06:02 BST 2013


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On 11/07/13 15:15, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 juillet 2013 10:43:17 Thomas Pfeiffer a écrit :
>> On 10.07.2013 20:01, Adrián Chaves Fernández wrote:
>>> Again, “Rich text (HTML)” should cover our asses for any type
>>> of users, as well as supporting rich text formats other than
>>> HTML in the future, so I would go with that.
>> 
>> Sorry for repeating myself, but it seems like my previous
>> suggestion was somehow lost to all but Heiko: "Formatted Text"
>> would solve our problem as well, because it's generic enough to
>> encompass both RTF and HTML without further specifying it, and I
>> am pretty certain that it will be understood by at least as many
>> users as Rich Text, and probably more (even complete computer
>> n00bs know what "formatting" is, but they may never have heard of
>> "rich text"). Any objections to "Formatted Text"? Way me also use
>> "Formatting" if we want to keep it short, because in fact you
>> turn formatting on with this button.
> 
> I prefer "Rich Text" for a different reason: it is shorter, and
> thus uses less horizontal space in the toolbar. That may not be
> true for all languages though.
> 
> For what it's worth, Thunderbird uses "Rich Text (HTML)" in some of
> its menus. That is too verbose for a toolbar button IMO, but it
> could work when used in the tooltip of the toolbar button.
> 
That sounds a sensible solution.  I agree with Adrián, though, that
consistency is very important.

Anne
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