"Affect:" toolbar label should be renamed/removed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Low
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jazzynico | ||
inkscape (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: inkscape
The tool controls bar for the Select tool contains a button group with the label "Affect:". This label is inappropriate for a couple of reasons:
1. False implication that the buttons apply some sort of visual effect (blur, noise etc). The buttons actually control the effects of scale/move operations on borders, gradients and patterns.
2. Grammatical inconsistency. Most (perhaps all?) other toolbar labels are nouns for the related property ("Width:", "Force:", "Angle X" etc). "Affect:" is a verb.
It would make sense to either remove the label or replace it with a suitable noun for the property being adjusted (maybe something like "Scale/move properties:" but less verbose!)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: inkscape 0.47.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 7 09:45:55 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100412)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: inkscape
Related branches
Changed in inkscape: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in inkscape: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
summary: |
- Verb "Affect" should be replaced with noun "Effect" + "Affect:" toolbar label should be renamed/removed |
Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
description: | updated |
Changed in inkscape: | |
milestone: | none → 0.49 |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in inkscape: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in inkscape (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
I'm not a native speaker so take this with a grain of salt. However, I think that the use of the verb form is intentional, and it actually makes more sense to me. For it's not the case that pressing any of those toolbar buttons applies any kind of 'effect' (noun) on the selected objects. Rather, the buttons specify those properties of the selection which scaling or moving should 'affect' (verb). I'm setting the bug status to 'incomplete' to wait for more opinions from other developers or users.