Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] [RFC] Match and Prepare context menu itemnames

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 16:43:52 +0200
|From: Ulf Lamping
|
|From: Olivier Biot
|
|> |From: Ulf Lamping
|> |
|> |
|> |Hi List!
|> |
|> |I'm thinking about renaming these entries.
|> |
|> |Currently, we have the context menu items named "Match" and 
|> |"Prepare". This is a bit short and not easy to understand.
|> |
|> |I would tend to rename it:
|> |
|> |Match   -> Apply as Filter
|> |Prepare -> Prepare a Filter
|> |
|> |Explanation:
|> |The term "Apply" is already used in the GUI, and better 
|> |explains what will be done (compared to "Match").
|> 
|> Match does 2 things:
|> A. Edit the display filter
|> B. Apply the modified display filter
|> 
|> Prepare does 1 thing:
|> A. Edit the display filter
|> 
|> Maybe we can choose between "Edit the filter" and "Edit
|> and then run the filter" as options?
|
|"run the filter"???
|
|Sorry, I don't get the point.

The point that I want to make is that there are *two*
steps in the "Match" option and only *one* step in the
"Prepare" option. I don't think an end-user will
understand this if we say "run" for the "match" option,
but I may be wrong.

Maybe "Edit the filter..." and "Edit and apply the
filter..." are more appropriate than "Prepare" and
"Match".

How does the following proposal sound:
	"Match"
		-> "And Not Selected"
	"Edit and apply the filter"
		-> "... and not the selected item"

Regards,

Olivier