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Bug 220439 - Inconsistent terminology in Create Project template page could be improved
Summary: Inconsistent terminology in Create Project template page could be improved
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: web
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML Project (show other bugs)
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All All
: P4 normal (vote)
Assignee: Tomas Mysik
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Reported: 2012-10-19 16:22 UTC by lxlyons
Modified: 2012-10-25 01:32 UTC (History)
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Description lxlyons 2012-10-19 16:22:39 UTC 
The design for the template page in the Create HTML Project dialog uses the terms "archive" and "template" interchangeably in the second radio option, and this slows users down.  

Please change the radio button label from "Select Archive:"  to "Select Template:"

I'm making this a P4 because it's not a big deal from a usability perspective, but I would like to fix it for V1.
Comment 1 David Konecny 2012-10-24 02:01:22 UTC 
Liza, I was wondering about this panel for a while. I think its current design is too fragmented and cumbersome. For example some templates can be accessed via second radio choice "Select Archive" and some under third one "Download Online Template". That's strange, no? especially if you look into details: second choice allows me to enter URL of a remote template to download and third choice can contain "Cordova" which is not online template at all. Another aspect of radio button based UI is that in order to use let say "Initializr: Bootstrap" you have to do two clicks: first enable third category and then select the template.

Could we improve it?

I can imagine a single list with all templates (locally defined by user or online ones; origin could be differentiated via an icon). The first item in the list would be "No Site Template" (or "Empty"). The last item in the list would be "Select Other..." which if selected would automatically popup a dialog to enter URL or Browser for local file and confirming that dialog would simply add the item to the list of templates and selected it.

What do you think? In long term; for 7.3 it is too late.
Comment 2 Tomas Mysik 2012-10-24 09:09:34 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Please change the radio button label from "Select Archive:"  to "Select
> Template:"

Fixed. David, Liza - could you please discuss David's comment in a new issue (or via e-mail)? Thanks.

http://hg.netbeans.org/web-main/rev/b46a8125bf1d
Comment 3 David Konecny 2012-10-24 20:13:59 UTC 
> David, Liza - could you please discuss David's comment in a new issue


Filed a issue 220786.
Comment 4 Quality Engineering 2012-10-25 01:32:48 UTC 
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201210250001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/b46a8125bf1d
User: Tomas Mysik <tmysik@netbeans.org>
Log: #220439 - Inconsistent terminology in Create Project template page could be improved