[Adium-devl] Previous Conversations Viewer?

[Michael Hamburg]

I think that when you "View Previous Conversations", the window it  
brings up should be called "Previous Conversations".   Because, like,  
that's what you're viewing, right?

Mike

On Jun 18, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> I made that change locally to see how it 'felt' and ended up  
> committing having forgotten it'd been changed -- buried in a large  
> changeset and all that.
>
> Log Viewer / View Logs seems reasonable to me... but I, like  
> everyone else on this list, am not a novice IM user.  I've run into  
> several people recently who had no idea that logging beyond the  
> default in-window history existed at all... I was thinking that  
> something which more clearly said "previous conversations" would  
> get better recognition than the fairly technical-sounding 'logs'.   
> I think "View Previous Conversations…" is a pretty good title...  
> but you're right that "Previous Conversations Viewer" is awkward at  
> best.
>
> I could roll with 'transcript'. For better or worse, and perhaps as  
> indication of the goodness of the choice, iChat calls its logs  
> "Chat transcripts" (though it has no good way to view them short of  
> Unsanity's Chat Transcript Manager). Anyone else have thoughts on  
> the word choice?
>
> -Evan
>
> On Jun 17, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>
>> I have one point to bring up before the code freeze hits: Previous  
>> Conversations Viewer? I guessed that you changed it to match "View  
>> Previous Conversations", Evan, but why not change that to "View  
>> Logs" instead? It's shorter, and rolls off the tongue better, and  
>> I think most people do understand the concept of a log.
>>
>> 	Log Viewer
>> 	View Logs
>>
>> Alternatively, why not "Transcripts"? If there are enough people  
>> who don't know what "log" refers to, surely they'll get "transcript".
>>
>> 	Transcript Viewer
>> 	View Transcripts
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