Comment 1 for bug 795165

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 795165] [NEW] "Edit bug mail" label is difficult to understand

On 10 June 2011 03:23, Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I'm sorry that I'm wading into something that seems to be very new, but:
> The phrase "Edit bug mail", on bug report pages and project pages,
> doesn't make sense to me. "Bug mail" is something that is sent from
> Launchpad, not from you, so you never get the opportunity to edit it.

Don't be sorry. Getting feedback on things while they're still fresh is great.

> "Change subscription" might be more understandable. Even simpler would
> be "Subscribe/Unsubscribe", but that would require merging it with the
> "Subscribe" link immediately above it (which is probably a good idea
> anyway).
>
> Using "Edit" for non-document things seems to be a Launchpad anti-
> pattern, so maybe a UI guideline for it could be added to
> <https://dev.launchpad.net/UserInterfaceWording> too.

That makes sense to me. I'm not sure who controls that page; probably
Huw. You should perhaps just add it.

Should links like "View package details" (in
https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/daily) be deprecated too?