Proposed solution: * In context menu rename "Create Archive" to "Compress..." * The subsequent dialog box should be re-titled to read: "Create compressed file" * The input box on the dialog box should be re-labelled from 'Archive' to 'Filename' * Change "Archive Manager" to "Compressed Files" on the Applications menu (with tooltip "Create and edit compressed files")
More data and discussion can be found here: * http://www.designintheopen.org/profiles/blogs/zip-archive-package-or and * http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=143#comment-23493 ** Description changed: A new user thinks "I need to create a zip file", and doesn't know how to do it. If you don't know that a zip file is an "archive", which many new users do not, then it's very difficult to tell how to create one. "Create archive" on the Nautilus context menu, "Archive Manager" in the Applications menu, etc, are all meaningless. (This happened to me today when someone I know rang me for technical support to ask how to create a zip file, and when I explained how, he said "what's an archive?") Suggested fixes (to be taken with a very large pinch of salt and replaced with better suggestions): Change "Create archive" to "Create compressed file" on the context menu Change "Archive Manager" to "Compressed Files" on the Applications menu (with tooltip "Create and edit compressed files") http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300655: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300655 Then won't you get questions like: "What's a compressed file"? Perhaps some other wording may help such as: "Create a safe copy of a file". + + Proposed solution: + * In context menu rename "Create Archive" to "Compress..." + * The subsequent dialog box should be re-titled to read: "Create compressed file" + * The input box on the dialog box should be re-labelled from 'Archive' to 'Filename' + * Change "Archive Manager" to "Compressed Files" on the Applications menu (with tooltip "Create and edit compressed files") + + More data and discussion can be found here: + * http://www.designintheopen.org/profiles/blogs/zip-archive-package-or and + * http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=143#comment-23493 ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: In Progress => Confirmed ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Assignee: Ivanka Majic (ivanka) => (unassigned) -- "Archive Manager" doesn't mean anything if you don't know what an "archive" is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15495 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
