Fix inconsistencies in menu description labeling
webchick - November 2, 2009 - 02:45
| Project: | Drupal |
| Version: | 7.x-dev |
| Component: | user interface text |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs work |
| Issue tags: | Needs usability review, Novice, ui-text |
Description
If you apply the patch at #510094-25: Add description to the link items of the toolbar you'll notice some glaring inconsistencies with how our toolbar menu items are labeled.
For whatever reason, People, Dashboard, Configuration and Modules, and Help don't have descriptions, but Appearance, Structure, Content, and Reports do.
We should either have a description on everything, or on nothing. Confer with the UX team in #drupal-usability on IRC for advice on which way to go.
#1
#2
These should indeed have alt texts.
#3
Here's a first pass at adding/improving the text on the description that appear when you hover over the admin menu items. (See attached)... Thoughts?
Dashboard
Current: none
Proposed: View and customize your dashboard
Content
Current: none
Proposed: Administer your site's content and comments
Structure
Current: Control how your site looks and feels.
Proposed: Administer your site's blocks, content types, menus and other components
Appearance
Current: Select and configure your site theme
Proposed: (keep as is)
People
Current: none
Proposed: Manage your site's users
Configuration and modules
Current: none
Proposed: Administer your site settings and modules
Reports
Current: View reports from system logs and other status information.
Proposed: View your site's reports, updates and errors
Help
Current: none
Proposed: Get help with managing and using your site
#4
#5
Good job. Finding all the 'your site's a bit too much, and not necessarily true, (though it always is for first time. That this is 'your site' is implied imo. Who says it's even a web site? Let's not explicitly label it. 'Your dashboard' is true though and sounds comfy and also fitting for theme. Would like to avoid using 'users' and add the 'account' triggerword for people. Config and modules is hopelessly generic but I see no way to really fix that. Don't like the Help one yet but have no suggestion for now.
Dashboard
View and customize your dashboard
*Content
Administer content and comments
*Structure
Administer blocks, content types, menus and other components
*Appearance
Select and configure your theme
*People
Manage user accounts
Configuration and modules
Administer settings and modules
*Reports
View reports, updates and errors
Help
Get help with managing and using your site
#6
'components' is a new word in the Drupal ui vocabulary. yay/nay?
#7
Comment modified:
Your suggestions are great! For help, how about:
Help
Reference for usage, configuration and modules
(it avoids using 'your site', anyway ;-))
P.S. In IRC we all agreed nay on 'components'
#8
Cool, so #510094: Add description to the link items of the toolbar is RTBC, so would be great to have a dev add these other text appearing on all the toolbar menu items.