4 usability bugs in Dolphin: documented with screenshots

["Gérard Talbot"]

> Hi Gérard,
>
> thanks for your message.
>
> 2013/3/16 "Gérard Talbot":
>> Dear Dolphin developers,
>>
>> Sorry for not reporting these bugs so far.
>>
>> Since about 3-4 weeks, whenever I work with Dolphin and encounter what I
>> sincerly believe are usability bugs or bad translation or inoperability
>> issues, I quickly took a screenshot. I did not have time to file bug
>> reports; please believe me, I am a very busy man.
>
> please believe me, I am a very busy man too. Reporting many different
> issues (most of which have *nothing* to do with Dolphin development)
> in a single message to the mailing list, rather than in bug reports
> which are filed for the right products, does not exactly make my life
> easier. But nonetheless, I will try to answer.
>
>> First attached .png screenshot image:
>> KDE-delete-instead-of-remove-USB-tooltip.png , 854px by 472px , 100
>> KBytes
>>
>> In french, we can clearly read the following in the tooltip:
>> "Cliquez pour supprimer ce périphérique en toute sécurité"
>> which you can translate (in English) as
>> "Click to safely delete the device."
>> !!
>>
>> The correct translation should have been saying instead something like
>> "Click to safely remove the device."
>> or
>> "Click to safely remove the removable device."
>> or (even best)
>> "Click to safely remove the USB device."
>> or even
>> "Cliquez pour retirer cette clé USB en toute sécurité."
>
> Please report translations issues as bug reports for the product "i18n".
>

I will report translations issues as bug reports next week as I will have
more time for this.
I have noted: product: i18n, translation and Plasma's device notifier.

But I'm not sure about others like Favoris versus Signets and tooltip
message duration by operating system event instead of mouse cursor
hovering event. Anyway ... with screenshots, things should be easier...

Gérard

>> One of the most annoying thing about this tooltip is that it pops up and
>> only last 5-6 seconds!! And it overlaps another pop up!
>
> If I'm not completely mistaken, this tool tip comes from Plasma's
> device notifier -> not a Dolphin issue.
>
>> There is another usability issue with that screenshot. Iconography,
>> logography, pictography, ideography everywhere nowadays. What does a
>> black
>> triangle with a short horizontal black line inside a white-ish round
>> area
>> means? In the asbolute, nothing. In the relativity, not much or hard to
>> say for non-initiated people.
>
> Already answered by Todd (thanks!).
>
>> Operating systems, websites and browsers now over-use, mis-use,
>> over-excessively use icons, logos of all sorts, pictograms/ideographs
>> everywhere, all the time. Often, their presence do not help the users.
>>
>> A normal user would have first to hover his mouse cursor over that black
>> triangle with a short horizontal black line inside a white-ish round
>> area,
>> then be able to read all the text (8 words) in less than 4-6 seconds.
>>
>> If I had right-clicked in "Places" sidebar the USB key, then the first
>> item message (still identified with such black triangle with a short
>> horizontal black line inside a white-ish round area) would say something
>> totally different, radically different:
>>
>> Second attached .png screenshot image:
>> KDE-free-or-unmount-USB-tooltip.png , 639px by 196px, 14KBytes
>>
>> "Libérer «Media amovible de 3.7 Go» en toute sécurité"
>> which could be translated as
>> "Safely free (or unmount) removable media device of 3.7 Gb"
>>
>> I still think this is bad translation in French. It should be saying in
>> French:
>>
>> "Retirer «Media amovible de 3.7 Go» en toute sécurité"
>> and not "Libérer".
>
> See above: -> i18n bug.
>
>> Diagnostic:
>> 1- inconsistent messages
>> 2- wrong, erroneous message
>> 3- rather poor translation
>> 4- Tooltip should not be time-dependent but rather
>> mouse-cursor-hovering-dependent
>> These 4 issues can be corrected, improved.
>
> Then please report them to the right people.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank





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