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The navigation menu description is poor.

Project:Drupal core
Version:7.x-dev
Component:base system
Category:task
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (fixed)
Issue tags:UBUserTesting2009, Usability

Issue Summary

The description of the navigation menu item is very bad. Typically users assume it's only for administrators and skip right over the word "often" which lets them know it is possible to put non-administrative items in this menu. We need to re-work the description.

Comments

#1

#2

Issue tags:+ui-text

let's use a specific tag for copy-writing issues

#3

let's use the one we have alreay…

#4

Status:active» needs review

This is my first ever attempt at a patch to core. Please let me know if I should be doing anything differently.

AttachmentSizeStatusTest resultOperations
nav_menu_description.patch2.85 KBIdleFailed: Failed to apply patch.View details

#5

Status:needs review» needs work

The last submitted patch failed testing.

#6

The description was recently changed by #273137: Split Navigation to User and Administration menu as part of a wider change, hence this patch not applying. Might still need some tweaks though so leaving this open.

#7

Status:needs work» fixed

It looks like this issue appears to be fixed in the recent changes to head, possibly by the other issue mentioned above. Marking this as fixed.

#8

Status:fixed» closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

#9

Removing tags "Needs text review, Needs usability review," as this issue is closed and fixed.

See & edit list of *hot patches* which need user testing soon.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/26409

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