Services tab options alignment

[Milo Casagrande]

Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client

Some of options in the Services tab of U1 preferences dialog have a different alignment.

Right now we have:

[ ] Bookmarks
[ ] Contacts
[ ] File Synchronization
   [ ] Music Download

The last two check-boxes, apart for the wrong capitalization (they should be sentence, not title as per HIG), are not very clear with their alignment.

Are they supposed to be kind of mutual? If I don't have file sync, I can't download music?

Also, in this case, "Services" means "the synchronization services" or "the services per-se" intended as the ability to use those services?

If it's not like that, what about trying to uniform those options in something like:
[ ] Synchronize bookmarks
[ ] Synchronize contacts
[ ] Synchronize files
[ ] Download music
In this way there would be only "actions" as options, easier also on translators to keep some kind of consistency.

Thank you for your consideration.

ProblemType: Bug
.home.milo..config.ubuntuone.syncdaemon.conf:
 [bandwidth_throttling]
 on = False
 read_limit = 2097152
 write_limit = 2097152
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 26 22:46:10 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: ubuntuone-client 1.1.4-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Adding a screenshot for reference.

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

I can reproduce that.

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

This patch fixes the problem.

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

The patch that fixes the problem (source modified directly).

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Lorenzo, thanks for the patch: the problem is that we don't know if that indentation is really supposed to be so, or not. What I would like to know is how the services work, so that we can understand also how to properly address that with translation.

Looking at the new version of the client, with the new description, looks like those are intended as the services to use. Still, I don't understand if the "Music" is really bounded with the files sync one. A help system for that would be a really good addition.

BTW, since now we have:
[ ] Bookmarks
[ ] Broadcast Messages Archive
[ ] Contacts
[ ] File Synchronization
   [ ] Music Download

And we have a small description that those are the services to use, wouldn't it be better to use:
[ ] Bookmarks
[ ] Broadcast Messages Archive
[ ] Contacts
[ ] Files
   [ ] Music

Still, the capitalization of the second one is not correct: it should be sentence capitalization.

[Rick McBride (rmcbride)]

Assigning to desktop team. I believe the layout is by design, however I think they should review and comment on the various suggestions.

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

On the one hand, the case of the items was fixed (as it was reported also in a separate bug); the indentation is because, as implied by said indentation and by the behavior of the app, music store purchases are delivered using file syncing, so unless you are syncing files you can't have music purchases synced.