Re: Clarification of Edit top-level-menu item names in English...

Michael,

Your comments are very logical. (I can be a little to wordy
sometimes.) Why don't we use the menu names that you suggested and I
will clarify the actual action performed by the menu item in the wiki
help documentation Peppe is working on.

Landon

On 9/26/07, Larry Becker <becker.larry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree with Michaël, and thanks to him for cleaning up the translations.
> Thanks to Landon and Peppe for their work on the documentation and interface
> consistency.
>
> regards,
>
> Larry
>
>
> On 9/26/07, Michaël Michaud <michael.michaud@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >For example, the "add new feature" and "view/edit feature" items seem
> > >to only deal with feature geometries in WKT format, and not with the
> > >feature attributes. I wonder if we might rename them "add new feature
> > >geometry in WKT" and "view/edit feature geometry in WKT".
> > >
> > >
> > I think "Add New Feature..." is OK as whet you really do is adding a new
> > feature (with empty attribute values)
> > "View/Edit Feature Geometry..." appears to me to be more precise than
> > just "View/Edit Feature", but WKT is not necessary (IMHO)
> >
> > >I also wonder if the "select features in fence" menu item might be
> > >renamed to "select features within or intersecting fence".
> > >
> > >
> > A bit long, "Select Features Intersecting Fence" should be OK, as a
> > fence is a polygon, and included features are also intersecting the
> polygon.
> > If you want me to make these changes in the english language files, I
> > can do it, because I'm on the point to change all the language property
> > files after some clean-up (adding missing keys, removing unused keys,
> > identifying untranslated keys...)
> >
> > Michaël
> >
> > >Any thoughts on these changes? Am I being to particular, or will these
> > >changes clarify the user interface a little?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >The Sunburned Surveyor
> > >
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