"Use message indicators" is not understandable
Bug #516168 reported by
Matthew Paul Thomas
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| empathy (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: empathy
Empathy in Lucid has a checkbox labelled "Use message indicators".
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As David Siegel just remarked to me, "I bet my grandma would really like to click that". It's not obvious what "message indicators" are, and even if it were, it's not obvious what "Use" entails.
Instead, the label should be more self-explanatory: "Show incoming messages in the messaging menu".
(This is an example of why we should avoid the term "indicator" generally: inevitably it would leak into the user interface where users wouldn't know what it is.)
Related branches
| Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.29.6-0ubuntu2
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empathy (2.29.6-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low
* debian/
- use easier to understand label for the message indicator option,
thanks to Matthew Paul Thomas for the suggestion (lp: #516168)
-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:01:06 -0800