[Libreoffice] [PATCH] make STR_MERGE_NOTEMPTY more understandable

[Maxime de Roucy]

Hi Eike

Thanks for taking my suggestion into consideration :-)

> I agree that the dialog's current message maybe isn't the best. A new
> string however should somehow describe that when the question is
> answered with yes then
> * all content of to be merged cells will be removed
> * all content will be concatenated
> * this new concatenated content will be placed into the first cell of
>   the merged cells
> 
> "merge contents of all cells" lacks information
I agree.

>"Should the contents of all merged cells be concatenated and moved into
the first cell?"
> What do you think?
It's better than the first string but :
* When you talk about "merged cells" the cells haven't been merged yet
so I think "cells" or "selected cells" or "to be merged cells" would be
better.
* You talk about the "the first cell" which is the top left cell, but
that's not obvious for every users...
I think it would be better to say "merged cell" since the first cell
will became the merged cell at the end.
If you don't like this idea, I think at least it should be mentioned
that the first cell is the top left one.

Summary :
Isn't "Should the contents of all cells be concatenated and moved into
the merged cell?" better ?

What do you think?

Thank you.

Maxime de Roucy

Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 à 17:49 +0100, Eike Rathke a écrit :
> Hi Maxime,
> 
> On Monday, 2011-11-07 10:58:13 +0100, Maxime de Roucy wrote:
> 
> > I think the STR_MERGE_NOTEMPTY (in sc/source/ui/src/globstr.src ; used
> > in Calc when merging cells) is not very understandable for common
> > users : "Should the contents of the hidden cells be moved into the first
> > cell?"
> > 
> > I think "Would you like to merge the contents of all cells?" would be 
> > better.
> 
> I agree that the dialog's current message maybe isn't the best. A new
> string however should somehow describe that when the question is
> answered with yes then
> * all content of to be merged cells will be removed
> * all content will be concatenated
> * this new concatenated content will be placed into the first cell of
>   the merged cells
> 
> "merge contents of all cells" lacks information, my suggestion would be
> 
> "Should the contents of all merged cells be concatenated and moved into the first cell?
> 
> What do you think?
> 
>   Eike
> 

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