Since the desire to stop the activity has already been conveyed by clicking the Stop button, the real choice to be made is whether or not the download should be cancelled. How about changing the wording to convey this choice directly:
To stop the activity now now you must cancel your ongoing download. [Cancel download] [Continue download] Clicking [Cancel download] will cancel the download and stop the activity (as was already requested by clicking Stop). I chose to keep the word "cancel" in the "Cancel download" button because the term "stop" is used in the UI as an action which can be resumed, which is untrue of the download. Clicking on [Continue download] will cause the alert to disappear, and implicitly cancel the previously requested "stop" action on the activity. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > In this particular case, we may want to say: > > Continue with download > > Stop download and stop browsing This isn't bad either, though perhaps we could say the same in fewer words: [Continue download] [Cancel and stop] Eben > -walter > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Wade Brainerd <wad...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yeah, Stop and Don't Stop sound best to me. Cancel is almost never an >> appropriate button; we should grep the codebase for it :) >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 13:32, Gabriel Eirea <gei...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> How about "Quit" and "Don't quit"? >>> >>> That would be better, though activities are stopped, rather than quitted. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Tomeu >>> >>>> 2009/10/19 Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org>: >>>>> Any ideas for a better wording? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Tomeu >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 00:40, Sugar Labs Bugs >>>>> <bugtracker-nore...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >>>>>> #1508: confusing wording on download from Browse >>>>>> ------------------------------------------+--------------------------------- >>>>>> Reporter: walter | Owner: erikos >>>>>> Type: enhancement | Status: new >>>>>> Priority: Unspecified by Maintainer | Milestone: Unspecified >>>>>> by Release Team >>>>>> Component: Browse | Version: Git as of >>>>>> bugdate >>>>>> Severity: Trivial | Keywords: >>>>>> Distribution: Unspecified | Status_field: Unconfirmed >>>>>> ------------------------------------------+--------------------------------- >>>>>> If you try to quit Browse in the middle of a download, you are told that >>>>>> quiting will "cancel" the download and you are presented with two >>>>>> buttons: >>>>>> cancel and stop. Hitting the stop button will cancel the download and >>>>>> hitting the cancel button will cancel the quitting, hence not cancel the >>>>>> download. I wonder if there are better words we can use to make this a >>>>>> bit >>>>>> less confusing. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1508> >>>>>> Sugar Labs <http://sugarlabs.org/> >>>>>> Sugar Labs bug tracking system >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Bugs mailing list >>>>>> b...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/bugs >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. >>>>> What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David >>>>> Farning >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. >>> What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David >>> Farning >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
