"Edit bug mail" label is difficult to understand

Bug #795165 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

I'm sorry that I'm wading into something that seems to be very new, but: The phrase "Edit bug mail", on bug report pages and project pages, doesn't make sense to me. "Bug mail" is something that is sent from Launchpad, not from you, so you never get the opportunity to edit it.

"Change subscription" might be more understandable. Even simpler would be "Subscribe/Unsubscribe", but that would require merging it with the "Subscribe" link immediately above it (which is probably a good idea anyway).

Using "Edit" for non-document things seems to be a Launchpad anti-pattern, so maybe a UI guideline for it could be added to <https://dev.launchpad.net/UserInterfaceWording> too.

It may save time to fix bug 771217 at the same time as this bug.

Benji York (benji)
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 795165] [NEW] "Edit bug mail" label is difficult to understand

On 10 June 2011 03:23, Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I'm sorry that I'm wading into something that seems to be very new, but:
> The phrase "Edit bug mail", on bug report pages and project pages,
> doesn't make sense to me. "Bug mail" is something that is sent from
> Launchpad, not from you, so you never get the opportunity to edit it.

Don't be sorry. Getting feedback on things while they're still fresh is great.

> "Change subscription" might be more understandable. Even simpler would
> be "Subscribe/Unsubscribe", but that would require merging it with the
> "Subscribe" link immediately above it (which is probably a good idea
> anyway).
>
> Using "Edit" for non-document things seems to be a Launchpad anti-
> pattern, so maybe a UI guideline for it could be added to
> <https://dev.launchpad.net/UserInterfaceWording> too.

That makes sense to me. I'm not sure who controls that page; probably
Huw. You should perhaps just add it.

Should links like "View package details" (in
https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/daily) be deprecated too?

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Huw Wilkins (huwshimi) wrote :

> > Using "Edit" for non-document things seems to be a Launchpad anti-
> > pattern, so maybe a UI guideline for it could be added to
> > <https://dev.launchpad.net/UserInterfaceWording> too.
>
> That makes sense to me. I'm not sure who controls that page; probably
> Huw. You should perhaps just add it.
Makes sense to me too. Happy for that to be added to the wiki.

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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

Updated.

Gary Poster (gary)
tags: added: story-better-bug-notification ui
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