Bug 231088

Summary:	openarena menu entry's tooltip not HIG compliant
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	petrosyan
Component:	openarena	Assignee:	Michał Bentkowski <mr.ecik>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description petrosyan 2007-03-06 01:12:25 UTC

Description of problem:
According to GNOME HIG
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-tooltips
menu item tooltips should be phrased as an imperative verb.

# Phrase the tooltip as an imperative verb, for example "design", "write" or
"check".

openarena's menu tooltip is not phrased as a verb. It is: "First person shooter"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openarena-0.6.0-4.fc7

Comment 1 Michał Bentkowski 2007-03-06 16:59:13 UTC

Which one do you think would best fit?
 - "Score frags to win the game"
 - "Frag enemy players and score points"
or
 - "Try to be the arena master" ;-)

Comment 2 petrosyan 2007-03-06 17:41:33 UTC

I like "Frag enemy players and score points" better.

Comment 3 Michał Bentkowski 2007-03-06 21:55:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I like "Frag enemy players and score points" better.

Fine then, I'll set this when the next release is out.

BTW. When I took a look at my installed packages, it turned out that a lot of 
packages do not have tooltips phrased as an imperative verb. Are you going to 
report bugs related with other applications? Or propose it as the new Packaging 
Guideline?

Comment 4 petrosyan 2007-03-07 01:41:57 UTC

I don't know. I just decided to file bugs for all packages that I have installed
that are not HIG compliant. But I think creating a new packaging guideline is a
very good idea. Since you are in the packaging business could you move this up
the line and propose it? It would be nice to have consistent menu entries.

Comment 5 Wart 2007-03-07 18:44:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Which one do you think would best fit?
>  - "Score frags to win the game"
>  - "Frag enemy players and score points"
> or
>  - "Try to be the arena master" ;-)

Or add 'Play a' to the beginning:

'Play a first person shooter'.  This tactic would apply to most of the games in
the menus.

Comment 6 Michał Bentkowski 2007-03-07 19:02:59 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> 'Play a first person shooter'.  This tactic would apply to most of the games 
in
> the menus.

IMO this is not "the most important tasks users can accomplish with your 
application" but the task user can accomplish by clicking the menu item.