[Libreoffice] [PATCH] make STR_MERGE_NOTEMPTY more understandable

Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com
Thu Nov 10 03:51:38 PST 2011


Hi all,

Isnt this something for ux-advise?

Best,

Bjoern

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:22:27AM +0100, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Maxime de Roucy schrieb:
> >Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 à 15:15 -0500, Kohei Yoshida a écrit :
> >>On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 18:40 +0100, Maxime de Roucy wrote:
> >>
> >>>Summary :
> >>>Isn't "Should the contents of all cells be concatenated and moved into
> >>>the merged cell?" better ?
> >>
> >>I like the following better:
> >>
> >>Do you want to merge the contents of the selected cells into one cell?
> >>Clicking 'No' will only retain the content of the upper-left cell.
> >
> >I like it.
> >
> >The "merge" word could be changed to "concatenate" which is more
> >precise ... but for me both are OK.
> >
> >The end of the sentence "into one cell" could be removed since it a bit
> >obvious.
> >
> >"Do you want to (merge or concatenate) the contents of the selected
> >cells (into one cell or nothing) ?"
> >"Clicking 'No' will only retain the content of the upper-left cell."
> >
> >What do you think ?
> 
> "Clicking 'No' will only retain the content of the upper-left cell."
> 
> That is wrong. The content remains in the hidden cells and can still
> be used in formulas. That is a used feature, when you will show a
> different content to the user than you need for calculation.
> 
> Kind regards
> Regina
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