Change label of 'set up broadcast account'

Bug #965328 reported by Christian Rupp
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This bug affects 10 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Invalid
Medium
Matthew Paul Thomas
Messaging Menu
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
gwibber (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
indicator-messages (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

https://lists.launchpad.net/unity-design/msg08818.html

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The option for setting up accounts like facebook is disturbing. The term broadcast account is not clear for new user.
We should replace 'broadcast' with 'social network'

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This was pointed out in a Canonical's user study about the top showstoppers for new users:

http://design.canonical.com/2010/06/when-new-users-first-encounter-ubuntu-5-show-stoppers/

3. Use of jargon

During their exploration of Ubuntu, participants encountered words they didn’t know, or didn’t expect, or terms that they had no use for: examples included ‘Gwibber’,’broadcast’,’terminal’ and ‘server’. “You lose me with ‘terminal’ and ‘server’.” one person said.

The use of such specialised language significantly influenced how users perceived the brand and the intended audience for Ubuntu. Some of the participants wondered whether Ubuntu was meant really for expert users rather than for them.

Tags: needs-design
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in indicator-messages (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
manny (estelar57) wrote :

Add extra info, also messaging menu (indicator-messages)

description: updated
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Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90) wrote : Re: [UIFe] Change label of 'set up broadcast account'

I think this requires design decision from the ayatana team. Hence marking incomplete until further feedback from the design team. Also we need a UIFe exception since it involves string change.

summary: - Change label of 'set up broadcast account'
+ [UIFe] Change label of 'set up broadcast account'
Changed in indicator-messages:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in indicator-messages (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Christian Rupp (grissi) wrote :

Add ifos about unity-design mailing list

description: updated
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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

Title should NOT carry the UIFe tag until and unless a freeze exception is requested and the release team is subscribed.

tags: added: needs-design
summary: - [UIFe] Change label of 'set up broadcast account'
+ Change label of 'set up broadcast account'
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

This label has been removed from the new Indicator IA, see http://design.canonical.com/2012/04/status-menus/

Marking this bug 'invalid' because this issue will be fixed by the indicator refresh project that is tracked separately.

Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in indicator-messages:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in indicator-messages (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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