[Libreoffice] [UX] Re: Better wording for 'Update links' question

[Christoph Noack]

Hi David, all!

Am Mittwoch, den 22.12.2010, 11:56 +0800 schrieb David Nelson:
> Hi, :-)
> 
> So, re-working Hal's suggeston, we'd have:

???

> "This document contains one or more links to external media or other data.
> Do you want to update all links to get the most recent content?
> 
> Go to Edit - Links... to find out what external data this document
> references."

I think this proposal misses a bit the remaining LibO/OOo menu and
dialog wording. For example, the "external media or other data" is is
"External Data" in Calc. And, as far as I know, LibO/OOo rather uses
"Media and Sound" or "Objects", but doesn't refer to "media". The funny
thing is, that pictures ("the" media content") won't get updated within
this dialog - so it would be somehow incorrect. I assume that it is the
same for videos and sounds.

Then, I miss the reason for asking - it is implicitly contained in "most
recent content", although the external data might not have changed in
the meantime. And what happens if the user does not update all the
links?

Then I'd like to ask whether you plan for different buttons and/or
dialog titles - or is this the default Yes/No behavior? If yes, then the
user would get the important information in the second part. It is
usually recommended to provide it as early as possible. That's e.g. the
reason for the "self-speaking" buttons. (I agree that LibO/OOo still
misses such specific dialog guidelines like the Gnome HIG or stuff
Apple/Microsoft/... provides.)

The last sentence "Go to Edit ..." is I'd like to see in the help
(referring to a sub-section to the , but not in the dialog itself. But
to be honest, I don't know whether there is currently a help topic for
that ...

Until then, I'd stick with the proposal stated below.

Cheers,
Christoph


> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:27, Christoph Noack <christoph at dogmatux.com> wrote:
[...]
> > ----
> > Update Linked Data
> > ----
> > This document links to external data that might have changed. Do you
> > want to update all linked data or keep the current document content?
> > ----
> > [Help]          [Update] [Keep]
> > ----
[...]