Opened at 2010-06-28T22:48:14Z

Closed at 2011-08-01T21:53:52Z

Last modified at 2011-08-01T23:13:50Z

#1104 closed defect (fixed)

the button to unlink a child from a directory should not be labelled "del"

Reported by: zooko Owned by: davidsarah
Priority: major Milestone: 1.9.0
Component: code-frontend-web Version: 1.7.0
Keywords: easy usability docs unlink Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

It should probably be labelled "unlink". In general I think it is hard for users to understand the difference between deletion and unlinking, and we can hopefully make it a little easier for them by being consistent in our choice of words.

Attachments (1)

del-to-unlink.darcs.patch​ (25.6 KB) - added by davidsarah at 2011-07-13T03:08:02Z.
* WUI: change the label of the button to unlink a file from 'del' to 'unlink'. Also change some internal names to 'unlink', and allow 't=unlink' as a synonym for 't=delete' in the web-API interface. Incidentally, improve a test to check for the rename button as well as the unlink button. * docs: some changes of 'delete' or 'rm' to 'unlink'. fixes #1104

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Change History (12)

comment:1 Changed at 2010-06-28T23:17:52Z by davidsarah

  • Keywords docs unlink added

Related to #776 (users are confused by "tahoe rm").

comment:2 follow-up: Changed at 2010-06-28T23:21:51Z by davidsarah

I would support changing to 'unlink' provided we do it consistently (this button, tahoe rm -> tahoe unlink, and everywhere in the docs).

comment:3 in reply to: ↑ 2 Changed at 2010-06-28T23:40:07Z by zooko

Replying to davidsarah:

I would support changing to 'unlink' provided we do it consistently (this button, tahoe rm -> tahoe unlink, and everywhere in the docs).

+1 from me

comment:4 Changed at 2010-07-17T05:33:15Z by davidsarah

  • Milestone changed from undecided to 1.8β
  • Owner set to davidsarah
  • Status changed from new to assigned

comment:5 Changed at 2010-09-11T00:38:30Z by davidsarah

  • Milestone changed from 1.8β to 1.9.0

Out of time for 1.8.

Changed at 2011-07-13T03:08:02Z by davidsarah

  • WUI: change the label of the button to unlink a file from 'del' to 'unlink'. Also change some internal names to 'unlink', and allow 't=unlink' as a synonym for 't=delete' in the web-API interface. Incidentally, improve a test to check for the rename button as well as the unlink button. * docs: some changes of 'delete' or 'rm' to 'unlink'. fixes #1104

comment:6 Changed at 2011-07-13T03:09:18Z by davidsarah

  • Keywords review-needed added
  • Owner davidsarah deleted
  • Status changed from assigned to new

comment:7 Changed at 2011-08-01T18:10:51Z by kevan

  • Owner set to kevan
  • Status changed from new to assigned

comment:8 Changed at 2011-08-01T20:38:27Z by kevan

  • Keywords review-needed removed
  • Owner changed from kevan to davidsarah
  • Status changed from assigned to new

There are a few places in the webapi docs that could use updating.

  • "Viewing a Directory (as HTML)" (line 929): says that the directory HTML contains forms to delete files and directories.
  • "Basic Concepts: GET, PUT, DELETE, POST" (line 64): line 91 seems to use delete to describe unlinking. Line 108 should say unlink instead of delete.

Looks good, otherwise.

comment:9 Changed at 2011-08-01T21:53:52Z by david-sarah@…

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

In 07ecac1d834ffd14:

WUI: change the label of the button to unlink a file from 'del' to 'unlink'. Also change some internal names to 'unlink', and allow 't=unlink' as a synonym for 't=delete' in the web-API interface. Incidentally, improve a test to check for the rename button as well as the unlink button. fixes #1104

comment:10 Changed at 2011-08-01T21:53:53Z by david-sarah@…

In 4861d50c2fa6a744:

docs: some changes of 'delete' or 'rm' to 'unlink'. refs #1104

comment:11 Changed at 2011-08-01T23:13:50Z by david-sarah@…

In 9ba8a1b83e3d598e:

docs/frontends/webapi.rst: change some more instances of 'delete' or 'remove' to 'unlink', change some section titles, and use two blank lines between all sections. refs #776, #1104

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