#1091 assigned enhancement

give clearer names to the "create a directory" buttons — at Version 5

Reported by: zooko Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: soon
Component: code-frontend-web Version: 1.7.0
Keywords: easy usability Cc: dan@…
Launchpad Bug:

Description (last modified by Lcstyle)

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: " [text entry field]
  • 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:" [text entry field]
  • 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.)

Change History (5)

comment:1 follow-up: Changed at 2010-06-19T17:51:58Z by 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".

comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed at 2010-06-21T20:33:35Z by zooko

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.

comment:3 Changed at 2010-07-18T02:18:15Z by davidsarah

  • Milestone changed from 1.7.1 to 1.8.0

comment:4 Changed at 2010-08-10T03:40:15Z by zooko

  • Milestone changed from 1.8.0 to soon

comment:5 Changed at 2014-09-27T02:15:18Z by Lcstyle

  • Description modified (diff)

Please assign for 1.11 release

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