Re: [Usability] Being closer to the people

[Jacob Beauregard <jake13jake comcast net>]

On Monday 30 April 2007 06:54:24 pm Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've just committed substantial change to the base.xml.in file. I got
> rid of all occurences of the "group" word in descriptions - and
> changed them all to "layout". I realize how technically incorrect it
> is - but these are the string people see in UI. And the word "group"
> says nothing to them.
>
> Also, I changed nobreakspace to "non-breakable space character",
> "numpad" to "numeric keypad".

Do you think it might be better to have both verbose descriptions and 
abbreviated descriptions? Might be good to also keep in mind the possible 
accessibility implications of verbose vs. abbreviated as well.

>
> This is the difference:
> http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/rules/base.
>xml.in?r1=1.180&r2=1.181
>
> So, if anyone would like to challenge these changes (or better - offer
> more changes which would make our description lines more
> user-friendly) - I would be grateful.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sergey
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