Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] make STR_MERGE_NOTEMPTY more understandable

At 3:15pm -0500 Wed, 09 Nov 2011, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 18:40 +0100, Maxime de Roucy wrote:
> > Summary :
> > Isn't "Should the contents of all cells be concatenated and moved
> > into the merged cell?" better ?
>
> I like the following better:
>
> Do you want to merge the contents of the selected cells into one
> cell? Clicking 'No' will only retain the content of the upper-left
> cell.
>
> And I agree that the current message is very awkward.

Heh, having run into that message more than few times in the past month, 
I, too, agree about its awkwardness.  One more suggestion from the 
peanut gallery:

Don't use "No" and "Yes", but rather something more action-oriented, 
like "Merge cells" and "Cancel".  Jeff Waugh had an excellent 
presentation and visual (circa 2006/7) to show what the user sees, but 
of course my google is poor this evening. The summary is "The entire 
dialog box is blurred/not readable, and the only visible parts are the 
buttons; the user should still be able to discern what action each 
button executes."

That said, I'm clearly not a UI fella, and it was suggested elsewhere in 
this thread that this might be a UI issue ...

Cheers,

Kevin