Bug 64348
| Summary: | "Back" button should probably say "Previous" in Xconfigurator | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Christian Rose <menthos> |
| Component: | Xconfigurator | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | robert.ojala.c4 |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-05-05 08:29:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Christian Rose
2002-05-02 20:24:08 UTC
I don't see this change as advantagous really. Back is well understood in meaning, and used in most GUI software, including GNOME, KDE, and Microsoft Windows. No. Windows uses "Previous" (tested with Windows 2000). GNOME uses "Previous". Haven't had the possibility to test with other environemnts yet though. This change was requested precisely because the current use in Red Hat Linux is inconsistant with many other environments. Reopening. Reclosing WONTFIX. Lets not make this a game of reopen/reclose please. It serves no useful purpose. The change is simply not happening. End of story. Even if other modules change? Consistency is not important, no? If you want some motive (besides consistency), then you should consider that "Previous" is more precise than "Back" under these circumstances. "Back" is used in browser-like applications with a history. In these cases "Back" can go back to any page that happens to be in the browser history immediately before the current page. Using "Previous" under these circumstances is most likely misleading, since there is no "ordering" except what happens to be defined by the browsing history, which can really be in any order. On the other hand, "Previous" is what's used in druids/wizards/installations etc. In this case, every page has a precisely defined order, not a random one. For this reason, and that it's also not as broad as "Back", it's probably why it's used in these situations. Xconfigurator, anaconda, and other similar Red Hat software are more close to the druid/installation/wizard use cases than a web browser use case. Xconfigurator is being replaced in the future with other tools, so there is no point in making such a change, regardless of any rationalizations there may be. Fair enough. |