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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Konqueror: Save Link As
From:       Art Carney <greencarrots () nospammail ! net>
Date:       2004-06-11 20:55:47
Message-ID: 200406111655.47594.greencarrots () nospammail ! net
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On Friday 11 June 2004 01:31 pm, Jamethiel Knorth wrote:
> >From: Dik Takken <D.H.J.Takken@phys.uu.nl>
> >Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:27:47 +0200 (CEST)
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >When I want to download a document by using right-click on a link in
> >Konqueror, I can see two options that have a very similar name:
> >
> >* Save Link As
> >* Save Link Location
> >
> >Users tell me this is confusing, because they think saving a 'link' will
> >not download the document itself, but merely save the link that points to
> >the document. Ofcourse you can figure out which of the two options is the
> >correct one, because you know that one of them should save the link while
> >the other should actually download the document.
> >
> >Although you can figure out which is which, I agree that it isn't clear at
> >first sight. I would like to propose to rename the entries to:
> >
> >* Save As
> >* Save Link As
> >
> >or
> >
> >* Download
> >* Save Link
> >
> >Any thoughts on this?
>
> I think it should be:
>
> * Bookmark Link
> * Download Target
> * Copy Link to Clipboard
>
> It covers everything that is done, all the entries are different, and it's
> fairly clear. Currently there is 'Copy Link Location', but I think that's
> not clear at all. Likewise 'Save Link As' seems unclear to me. I also do
> not like the suggestion of 'Save As' because it overlaps with that
> identical term which usually refers to saving the current location.
>
> I'd recommend that the terms be generally change throughout the system to
> the target of a link being referred to as the 'Target' not the 'Link
> Location'. Logically, the 'Link Location'  is also where the link is
> located, as in its position on the page, and it doesn't seem clear to me
> otherwise either. The 'Target' of a link can only be where that link goes
> to.
>
> I think the link itself should always be called the 'Link', as it is now,
> and the current location should be called the 'Current Location' or the
> 'Location', as it is now.

The word "link" needs to be in every menu entry which operates on links. That 
way, the functionality is shown to be related.

* Bookmark Link
* Download Link Target
* Copy Link Address

You don't need the "to Clipboard" since everyone already knows what copy 
means.
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