give clearer names to the "create a directory" buttons #1091

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zooko · 2010-06-19T15:30:33Z

zooko commented

2010-06-19 15:30:33 +00:00

I watched someone (Dan Shoutis) use Tahoe-LAFS for the first time, using the WUI, and he was uncertain/confused about whether a created directory would be linked to from an extant directory or not. Currently there are two buttons in the WUI to create a directory. The one on the Welcome Page is labelled like:

label: "Create a directory"
button: "Create a directory"

and the one on the directory page is labelled like:

label: "Create a new directory in this directory"
label: "New directory name: " [entry field]text
button: "Create"

Let's change this so that the Welcome Page has:

button: "create an unlinked directory"

and the directory page has:

label: "create a directory and link to it from this directory"
label: "new directory name:" [entry field]text
button: "create"

Opinions?

(By the way I deliberately changed capitalization because sentences should start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark and sentence fragments should do neither.)

I watched someone (Dan Shoutis) use Tahoe-LAFS for the first time, using the WUI, and he was uncertain/confused about whether a created directory would be linked to from an extant directory or not. Currently there are two buttons in the WUI to create a directory. The one on the Welcome Page is labelled like: * label: "Create a directory" * button: "Create a directory" and the one on the directory page is labelled like: * label: "Create a new directory in this directory" * label: "New directory name: " [entry field]text * button: "Create" Let's change this so that the Welcome Page has: * button: "create an unlinked directory" and the directory page has: * label: "create a directory and link to it from this directory" * label: "new directory name:" [entry field]text * button: "create" Opinions? (By the way I deliberately changed capitalization because sentences should start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark and sentence fragments should do neither.)

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warner commented

2010-06-19 17:51:58 +00:00

how about "create a new subdirectory" ? The "sub-" prefix indicates the link-ed-ness. And the dirnode button could be labeled "mkdir" instead of the rather-generic "create".

zooko commented

2010-06-21 20:33:35 +00:00

Replying to warner:

how about "create a new subdirectory" ? The "sub-" prefix indicates the link-ed-ness. And the dirnode button could be labeled "mkdir" instead of the rather-generic "create".

I like those suggestions.

Replying to [warner](/tahoe-lafs/trac-2024-07-25/issues/1091#issuecomment-78129): > how about "create a new subdirectory" ? The "sub-" prefix indicates the link-ed-ness. And the dirnode button could be labeled "mkdir" instead of the rather-generic "create". I like those suggestions.

tahoe-lafs modified the milestone from 1.7.1 to 1.8.0

2010-07-18 02:18:15 +00:00

zooko modified the milestone from 1.8.0 to soon

2010-08-10 03:40:15 +00:00

Lcstyle commented

2014-09-27 02:15:18 +00:00

Please assign for 1.11 release

tahoe-lafs modified the milestone from soon to 1.11.0

2014-09-27 03:16:50 +00:00

daira commented

2014-09-27 13:48:26 +00:00

I agree with the wording change but not with the change of capitalization.