onBoard menu items are unhelpful

Bug #523850 reported by Michael Kanis
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Onboard
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onboard (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Nominated for Lucid by Սահակ

Bug Description

Binary package hint: onboard

The "onBoard" menu items in the Accesibilty menu are totally undescriptive and shouldn't be especially if onboard is supposed to be an accesibility tool. The menu item should read "On-screen keyboard". The preferences menu item should probably go to the System→Preferences menu and read the same (the word "preferences" would not be needed there).

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Սահակ (petrosyan) wrote :

Also menu items are not GNOME HIG compliant.

According to GNOME HIG http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/desktop-application-menu.html.en#menu-item-tooltips

menu item tooltips should be phrased as an imperative verb. Onboard's menu item tooltip is "Flexible onscreen keyboard for GNOME" and is not phrased as an imperative verb.

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

 Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Changed in onboard (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: a11y lucid
tags: added: desktop-file
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 275450, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in onboard:
status: New → Invalid
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