On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:13:39PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Sat, 15 May 2004, Nathan Hurst wrote:
- Shouldn't New Window really be called Duplicate Window or Clone Window or something? I assumed this command would do the same as New.
New View?
That would feel more sensible, yeah.
Here's my symantic analysis of the options:
"new": something not seen before "window": one of the little draggy things my window manager controls. ;) "view": a specific view into a dataset "duplicate": v. creating the same thing; n. the same as something else
We currently have "New Window", which is accurate: it creates a new window. However, this does not at all capture what's IN that new window, which is a duplicated view.
For me, "New View" doesn't immediately tell me I'm going to get a new window. If I sit and think about it, I can come to the conclusion that a new view can only appear in a new window, but it doesn't jump to mind. And it's also not immediately obvious that this "new" view will be a duplicate of what I already have, although thinking about it would clear that up too.
When I was doing icon/verb work, I had suggested "Duplicate Window", which to me says I'm going to get another window, and it's going to be the same as what I have right now. However, this may not indicate to other people that it will contain a independently-controlled view of the same data. (Although I think "Duplicate Window" is more informative than "New Window" or "New View", it is probably still incomplete.)
Perhaps "Duplicate View Window"? Or "Duplicate Window View"? (Can't we have menu-based tool tips?)