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In the Preferences in Keybindings in View: Change the shortcut name from "Toggle Messages Window" to "Toggle Message Window" #3989

Open ralf3u opened 3 weeks ago

ralf3u commented 3 weeks ago

In the menu in View the name is "Message Window" and not "Messages Window". I think that "Toggle message window" is better than "Toggle Message Window".

elextr commented 3 weeks ago

S/B consistent "View->Toggle Message Window" everywhere. All entries in the View menu are all capitals, so not "Toggle message window" irrespective of preference. Edit: Capitals is HIG guidance.

The keybindings menu has to be changed from "Toggle Messages Window" and the Geany manual entry for that keybinding as well. PR welcome.

techee commented 2 weeks ago

I think it should be "Show Messages Window" as there's a checkbox next to the entry and it shows whether this "preference" is set. "Toggle" is good for actions like keybindings.

elextr commented 2 weeks ago

Yeah, from that point of view for a tick entry then Show Message(s) Window is better.

So the only issue is message/messages. Only one of the tabs in the message "Window" (actually its a pane, but lets not get technical :-) is called "Messages", there are also "Status", "Compiler", "Scribble", and "Terminal" as well. So really calling the menu entry the same as one of the tabs is not the right thing, it is not related to the particular tab, its all tabs.

Simply removing the s is the minimal menu difference unless somebody can think of a better name than "Message Window" or a better name for the "Messages" tab.

(All I could think of was "Miscellaneous Window", but no thats not better).