Mickael,
Firstly let me thank you for the effort invested in these changes.
Don't take critique as a sign of ungratefulness. Without creative people
like you to take action there would be no progress. Unfortunately it's
also the case that no good deed goes unpunished...
I read the whole Bugzilla, but I see no mention of a decision to use
"Find Actions" and hence no underlying thought process for why this
specific wording was chosen. I did see mention of "most customers don't
know what Quick Access does". But some do apparently. We don't really
have any concrete data as a basis for making a statistically-based
argument one way or the other. So whether "Find Actions" as a label
will help customers find it this useful control *and *will also help
them understand that by "Actions" this really means that they can
quickly find shortcuts to "Open" Views, "Open" Perspectives,
"Invoke/Run/Execute/Perform" Commands, "Do Something With with" Menus
(though I wonder how is that different conceptually from a Command?),
"Create a" New "Something", "Open" Preferences, and maybe more
eventually? Will that be more helped customers than the ones who wonder
where Quick Access has gone? Perhaps? Probably? No doubt way more
customers will be helped?
Let's assume that this new UI design will help more people find this
useful feature than it will hinder people looking for the familiar
"Quick Access" because the replacement UI appears in exactly the same
place as before. It certainly seems a reasonable assumption. Maybe
almost everyone uses Ctrl-3 away and won't care one way or the other.
But is "Find Actions" the ideal term to use here? I know you can Find
things this way, and I suppose whatever you do with that thing you find
is an action...
Also, the +/+ with the wand icon looks quite a bit like the + used for
creating new things and it's hard to see that there is a flashlight on
the end of the wand. Maybe someone graphically creative could make an
even better icon? I.e., one so pretty, meaningful, and attention
grabbing that it screams "Click me, I'm awesomely useful!". Then we
might not need any text and we'll make the screen-wastage-averse users
even happier. (One might even consider whether the toolbar could now be
made even more compact in terms of height.)
Should these be discussed on this already-fixed Bugzilla or on some
other existing/new dedicated Bugzilla?
Thanks,
Ed
On 28.09.2019 07:46, Mickael Istria wrote:
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:53 AM Ed Merks <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
But I wonder why the change of wording from "Quick Access", which
is very general, to "Find Actions", which is more specific than
what the button actually does? Note only that, use the button and
type "x":
I don't see any "Actions". I'm also concern that our large user
base is likely to not recognize this as a new, improved "Quick
Access" replacement.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550932
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