make "open" button clearer in preference dialog's web tab

[WouterBolsterlee]

The summary says it all: a web browser icon should be used on "Open" button in Web interface preference tab. Currently it looks like the button will open a file chooser dialog (which is does not).

[charles]

There is no stock web browser icon in GTK afaik

[WouterBolsterlee]

Well, that doesn't make using the wrong icon right.

Reopening this bug.

(Oh, and I consider it slightl, well, eh, unfriendly to close a valid report as WONTFIX without any prior discussion, but perhaps that's just me. I'm used to the way the Gnome community handles reports in Bugzilla, which is quite different from what I have seen on this Trac. Don't take offense, please.)

[WouterBolsterlee]

Suggestion: use the label "Open web interface" on the button, since that is what the button does (this is not obvious), and don't use an icon.

[charles]

Okay. From an abstract standpoint, IMO it's more important what the button does than how the button does it. Therefore the "help" aspect is more important than the "browser" aspect, so the "help" icon should be used.

Having no label plus "Open web interface" is worse than what we've got now. Every user will be able to guess that a "Help" button will open some sort of help window. IMO you will not get anywhere near that percentage with "open web interface".

But really the point here is that what the button does is more important than how the button does it. That's why the Help button should stay a help button, rather than getting tangled up in whether it's done via a browser or "web interface" or what.

[charles]

(gah, I didn't mean to should through the last paragraph... I blame trac ;)

[charles]

gah, I'm an idiot, please ignore comment #5 altogether.

[charles]

committed to trunk in r7818

[WouterBolsterlee]

Thanks, so at least the label on the button makes sense now, even though it's the wrong icon ;)

Fwiw, I couldn't find any reference in the HIG for this, only ​an assistent example dialog with a Find button, but no Find stock icon.

I'm marking this report fixed for now. Thanks again.

[charles]

I need to leave this open until I do the next mass backport to the 1.5x branch...

[charles]

backported to 1.5x in r7821

[WouterBolsterlee]

For some reason the newly introduced string is not available for translation on Launchpad. Any clue why? I'm looking at the trunk translation, according to Launchpad.

[charles]

Thanks very much for reopening this. I've uploaded a new transmission.pot to launchpad to resolve this. Launchpad's upload page says "It will be automatically reviewed in the next few hours."

[WouterBolsterlee]

Charles, thanks for the prompt reply and action.