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Current we say something like: Are you sure you want to delete the {0} selected resources from the file system? I think we should shorten that a bit and I suggest to drop the "Are you sure you want to" part.
IMHO the "Are you sure you want to" phrase does not add value to the dialog. Shorter texts are easier and faster to read. I suggest we shorten such usages in general.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/147390
Planning to merge tomorrow. Having less "boilerplate" text will hopefully beneficial for the user.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/147682
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/147390 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=b9334c3e02c15c519e852c5a547f68cd2851f940
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/147682 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news.git/commit/?id=90e0c47573c05f77c958535bb1035b98ff7bd3a5
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/147689
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/147690
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/147689 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=7ebb706112c71c784a820a32ddce2e7cb4ea6f2e
Please see bug 550048 comment 8 and consider to revert this.
(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #10) > Please see bug 550048 comment 8 and consider to revert this. I think we currently have two developer groups: 1.) the first group tries to reject all changes which are not necessary. Bug 550048 comment 8 is IMHO one of such instances. I accepted that opinion as debug is not my primary development component. 2.) the second group would like to improve things even if they are not broken with the intention to improve the Eclipse IDe. I think the active developers in platform UI tend to be more in the second group. For this reason I would suggest not to allow the option for platform UI. If more active platform UI developer dislike this change, I'm +1 for revert.
The change aligns with Gnome HIG https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/dialogs.html.en and IMHO it makes it faster to understand what the question is.
If also vote to have shorter texts and remove the "Are you sure..." part
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/147690 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ua.git/commit/?id=171a89644775cbcf962189431cbcad46e6f8b72d
Created attachment 279650 [details] Inconsistent phrases across products The dialog box phrases became inconsistent. In the attached dialog there are two dialog boxes from Egit and Platform. Since Egit is included in all EPP packages I consider that also part of eclipse product. Now we have two dialog boxes with different phrases. This looks bad from end user perspective. I prefer usage of consistent phrases across one Eclipse product. Atleast in EPP packages we should have consistent use.
(In reply to Sravan Kumar Lakkimsetti from comment #15) > Created attachment 279650 [details] > Inconsistent phrases across products > > The dialog box phrases became inconsistent. In the attached dialog there are > two dialog boxes from Egit and Platform. Since Egit is included in all EPP > packages I consider that also part of eclipse product. > > Now we have two dialog boxes with different phrases. This looks bad from end > user perspective. I prefer usage of consistent phrases across one Eclipse > product. > > Atleast in EPP packages we should have consistent use. I'm planning to provide Gerrits for EGit too.
IMHO the transition will be similar to the "action verbs" in dialogs in which we changed ok/cancel to something more descriptive. The platform moved first and other plugins followed.
Ideally I would like to have a document/paper describing the guidelines for our enterprise customers(example Jboss, IBM rational tools, Intel tools etc). If it is already there, that needs to be enhanced with this change.
(In reply to Sravan Kumar Lakkimsetti from comment #15) > Created attachment 279650 [details] > Inconsistent phrases across products > > The dialog box phrases became inconsistent. In the attached dialog there are > two dialog boxes from Egit and Platform. Since Egit is included in all EPP > packages I consider that also part of eclipse product. > > Now we have two dialog boxes with different phrases. This looks bad from end > user perspective. I prefer usage of consistent phrases across one Eclipse > product. > > Atleast in EPP packages we should have consistent use. EGit moved already to also use shorter text. https://git.eclipse.org/r/148069
