Dialogs quality problems and consistency: standardize commands description

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Dialogs quality problems and consistency: standardize commands description #11

Open SrNetoChan opened 7 years ago

SrNetoChan commented 7 years ago

Throughout QGIS, dialogs have quality problems. It would be nice if someone could check all dialogs for the following problems:

Use of "Browse", "Select", "Choose" and other options to open the filesystem browser to select one or more files.
"Add saved file to map", "Load into canvas when finished", "Open output file after running algorithm"

SrNetoChan commented 7 years ago

I would propose to use always "Browse" for file navigations button And something generic like "Load in canvas when finished" or "Load results in canvas"

DelazJ commented 7 years ago

Another string used for file navigation button is "..." And I wonder (didn't check right now) if we do not have cases with simply an icon...

pcav commented 7 years ago

Why not always an icon?

DelazJ commented 7 years ago

@SrNetoChan to ease discussion on the items, I split in 3 the current Pr.

SrNetoChan commented 7 years ago

@pcav not sure the icon, for this particular purpose, is a very common choice. Can't imagine a icon for it.

pcav commented 7 years ago

You're probably right.

DelazJ commented 7 years ago

@SrNetoChan

@pcav not sure the icon, for this particular purpose, is a very common choice. Can't imagine a icon for it.

Give a look to the Settings --> Options dialog in which you have mActionFileOpen used to browse folder. I don't find that weird personally. I even wonder if it'd better fit the processing algs (in which ... is used) than a textual button like "Browse" or else

SrNetoChan commented 7 years ago

AFAIK, the reason why ... Is used many times in processing is because many times it points to several options.

Anyway, I will have a look