[Kmymoney-devel] Text on the 'Finish' button of the reconciliation wizard

David Houlden djhoulden at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 14:24:45 CEST 2010


On Sunday 25 July 2010 Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while reading the changes Jack has made to the description of the
> reconciliation process, I got reminded of a discussion we had in the past
> about the text 'Finish' on the finish button of the reconciliation wizard
> (ending balance dialog).
>
> This word seems to be confusing, as we just start the reconciliation
> process and don't finish it. On top, once you press 'Finish' you see the
> another 'Finish' button underneath the ledger that actually is used to
> finish the reconciliation (lots of finishes here - are we done yet?).
>
> I therefore propose to change the finish button that ends the
> reconciliation wizard to be labeled 'Start', as pressing it starts the
> reconciliation process.
>
> Any comments on this last minute change are very welcome. I have the
> change ready in my sandbox and if I don't hear back until 18:00 UTC
> today, I'll add it to SVN. (Sorry in case we need to update the screen
> shots again).

In my opinion, when a user clicks the reconcile toolbar button that is the 
start of the (two stage) process so labelling it "Start" could be confusing 
I think. 
I suggest "Continue" or just "OK".

Regards, Dave.



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