Cleanup forum description

Yes, this seems fine.

As an aside, all this "grab a handle" business was put in at the last possible second of the Drupal 6 string freeze, because this was, then, a new interaction and we weren't certain that people would immediately grasp it, pun intended. But, it seems to have turned out fairly self-explanatory, so there's no need to have the additional text.

Not bad, but we could be more noob-compatible, and even much shorter.

How about:

"All forums on your page. You can put forums into containers to group them."

No need to talk about topics and threads here: this should be on the thread list.

@eigenator: do you mean "All forums on you site" (instead of page)?

Committed to CVS HEAD. Thanks!

@Dries yes. All forums on your site. :)

Though the other version is already comitted, I'd like to give it a shot with the as-short-as-possible one.

Darn, the last one had "page". This one has "site"

And once more because of double hyphens...

It's a real drag that it is not possible to edit or remove attachments on issues in your own comments.

O.K. this could not work, because the other patch was applied before. New attempt.

This is the description now:

"All forums on your site. You can put forums into containers to group them."

couple of changes added here, all related to the forum pages admin pages.

changed

This page displays a list of existing forums and containers. Containers (optionally) hold forums, and forums hold forum topics (a forum topic is the initial post to a threaded discussion). To provide structure, both containers and forums may be placed inside other containers and forums.

to:

Use containers to group related forums.

changed

By grouping related or similar forums, containers help organize forums. For example, a container named "Food" may hold two forums named "Fruit" and "Vegetables", respectively.

to:

Containers let you organize forums. For example, a container named "Food" may hold two forums named "Fruit" and "Vegetables".

changed

A forum holds related or similar forum topics (a forum topic is the initial post to a threaded discussion). For example, a forum named "Fruit" may contain forum topics titled "Apples" and "Bananas", respectively.

to:

A forum holds related forum topics. For example, a forum named "Fruit" may contain forum topics titled "Apples" and "Bananas".

changed

These settings allow you to adjust the display of your forum topics. The content types available for use within a forum may be selected by editing the <em>Content types</em> on the forum vocabulary page.

to:

Adjust the display of your forum topics. Select the content types that may be used in a forum by editing the <em>Content types</em> on the forum vocabulary page.

http://skitch.com/yoroy/ngd5i/container-before
http://skitch.com/yoroy/ngdh8/container-after

http://skitch.com/yoroy/ngd57/forum-before
http://skitch.com/yoroy/ngdhj/forum-after

http://skitch.com/yoroy/ngd5x/forums-before
http://skitch.com/yoroy/ngdhg/forums-d7 (= after)

http://skitch.com/yoroy/ngf4m/forumsettings-before
http://skitch.com/yoroy/ngf4f/forumsettings-after

images from yoroy's patch:

Container before

after

Forum before

after

Forum before

after

Settings before

after

Re-rolled it to make it even shorter and by removing unneeded words. Pattern: "For example, a Forum named Fruit" becomes "A forum named Fruit"

Patch and screenshots.

Rerolled, changed "Set content types to use on the Forum vocabulary page"
to "Select content types to use in Forums on the Forum vocabulary page"

Updated the link to that page. And - er - sometimes the controls to choose content types are missing on that page...

uh, and the patch...

Ok here we go:

Forum list before:

Forum list after:

___

Forum settings before:

Forum settings after:

___

Add container before:

Add container after:

___

Add forum topic before:

Add forum topic after:

status etc.

No idea how to fix tests.

Or maybe I do.

woohoo! Now needs review of #21 by humans.

Looking over the code it looks good. Nice change.

Could we avoid silly, nonsensical examples? There is no one on this earth, even Martha Stewart, who is going to name forum categories Fruit and Vegetables and forums Apples and Bananas.

How about describing more "real world" sample forum containers/forums? You know, like these! http://drupal.org/forum

For example, categories of "General" and "Support", and "General" may contain forums such as "News and Announcements" and "General Discussion".

On the other hand, that Fruit/Vegetables and Apple/Bananas example might be very nice in the help text/help page for Taxonomy.

Ok, removed examples in this patch.

Great! Even fewer words. :)

Committed to HEAD.