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Bug 46243 - ALL: Better description of values history buttons in VCS dialogs.
Summary: ALL: Better description of values history buttons in VCS dialogs.
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: obsolete
Classification: Unclassified
Component: vcsgeneric (show other bugs)
Version: 4.x
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Martin Entlicher
URL:
Keywords: UI, USABILITY
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-07-16 15:21 UTC by Jiri Kovalsky
Modified: 2006-03-24 10:33 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Jiri Kovalsky 2004-07-16 15:21:26 UTC 
Development build #200407151800 of NetBeans 4.0
Windows XP, JDK 1.5.0 Beta

Description:
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All of the "Previous", "Next" etc. buttons miss
any tooltip which helps to misunderstand their
meaning. Secondly, their name should be adjusted
somehow to better describe their purpose.

Steps to reproduce:
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1. Invoke "Versioning|CVS|Global CVS Init...".
2. Note that none of the four buttons on top has
tooltip.
3. furthermore their names are not self descriptive.
Comment 1 Martin Entlicher 2004-07-21 15:00:42 UTC 
Any suggestion of what the better name should be? John, do you have an
idea? What about "Last Values" and "Next Values"? If it's not too long...
Comment 2 John Jullion-ceccarelli 2004-07-21 15:08:37 UTC 
I think adding more text to the buttons themselves would probably make
them way too long. I think the tool tips will go a long way towards
helping understand their purpose. We could also add some display text
above the buttons, something like "Command Options History".
Comment 3 Jiri Kovalsky 2004-07-21 15:14:03 UTC 
Hm, that sounds good to me.
Comment 4 Martin Entlicher 2004-07-21 15:21:36 UTC 
The tooltips are in.

I would not want to add much additional text around, because that will
make the dialogs bigger.
But, what about:

Options History: [Last] [Next] [Get Default] [Set As Default]

/cvs/vcscore/src/org/netbeans/modules/vcscore/util/Bundle.properties,v
 <--  Bundle.properties
new revision: 1.26; previous revision: 1.25

/cvs/vcscore/src/org/netbeans/modules/vcscore/util/VariableInputDialog.java,v
 <--  VariableInputDialog.java
new revision: 1.89; previous revision: 1.88
Comment 5 Jiri Kovalsky 2004-07-22 10:01:39 UTC 
I think it's not about options but values. And it's even 1 char
shorter ... :-) The rest is fine.
Comment 6 Richard Gregor 2004-08-12 14:01:19 UTC 
I think we did enough for now. 
Fixed.
Comment 7 Jiri Kovalsky 2006-03-24 08:27:31 UTC 
I agree. Verified in FCS build #200505031930 of NetBeans 4.1.