[drupal-devel] promote to frontpage: confusing.

[Bèr Kessels]

oop, hit "send" too quick.

-1 on changing the name dynamically. Its very bad for useability to have form 
items change into other iotems based on changing settings. A form item should 
remain the same. Always. OR might dissapear, but certainly not change into 
another one.

Op dinsdag 8 maart 2005 03:03, schreef Andre Molnar:
> -1 for this change - UNLESS there is empirical data to suggest that the
> majority of Drupal installs do not use the default front page (i.e. they
> use something else).
>
> "Promote to front page" is not confusing in any way.  And if someone is
> advanced enough to change their front page, I think they would
> understand that "Promote to front page" means "Promote to the page that
> is normally the front page."
>
> The real solution is to test what the default front page is (perhaps
> even create and store a new flag) and change the wording of the option
> box based on that.
>
> Pseudo code:
>
> If($default_front_page) {
> 	form_checkboxes(t('Promote to front page') /*MORE CODE*/);
> }
> else {
> 	form_checkboxes(t('Is Headline') /*MORE CODE*/);
> }
>
> Long story short - The cons of the proposed change AS IS outweigh the pros.
>
> andre
>
> Bèr Kessels wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Currently we use the standard flag called "promote to frontpage". This is
> > only correct for those cases where /node is the frontpage. For all other
> > cases,
> > thes flag is obsolete, if not completely wrong.
> >
> > I suggest the folloiwing:
> > We stop calling /node frontpage.
> > We call /node "headlines", in documentation and help text.
> > By default the headlines are set to frontpage (we have that now)
> > We rename the flag " promote" to "add to healines", or even simply "is
> > headline"
> >
> > Pro
> > This will improve useability for all these ppl that do not use /node as
> > frontpage.
> > It will make our frontpage system clearer, for /node (headlines) becomes
> > just another frontpage option.
> >
> > Con:
> > Users who are used to the current system might get confused when they do
> > not find the "promote to frontpage flag" anymore.
> > Regards,
> >  Bèr
Regards,
 Bèr
-- 
 [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ]