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<div style="direction:ltr">I agree that it's not a commonly used term. At the same time I'm struggling with coming up with a better one. Just calling it the »Menu« would probably lead people onto the wrong track.</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Maybe we could include the icon in the string or something like that. I think we do something similar in the add-on installation process now.</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">FWIW, I've seen a pretty cool animation that our motion team has been working on, explaining where an item went after selecting that option. So even if the term isn't clear, it will be explained visually to the people who click the
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Photon-dev <photon-dev-bounces@mozilla.org> on behalf of Dão Gottwald <dgottwald@mozilla.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:48:07 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Francesco Lodolo [:flod]<br>
<b>Cc:</b> photon-dev@mozilla.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: "Overflow menu" in UI strings</font>
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<div>I agree it feels pretty jargony, and I'd bet most users won't understand it without some explanation... except that it's also a term not easily explained as it kind of needs you to understand that the toolbar can "overflow" in the first place.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2017-05-27 17:51 GMT+02:00 Francesco Lodolo [:flod] <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:flod@lodolo.net" target="_blank">flod@lodolo.net</a>></span>:<br>
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Hi,<br>
Following Gijs' suggestion and moving discussion to the mailing list.<br>
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Bug 1354078 is adding a couple of new strings: "Pin to Overflow Menu" and "Unpin from Overflow Menu".<br>
<a href="https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/ENBBK0F9U#/screens/229252091_Customization" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mozilla.invisionapp.co<wbr>m/share/ENBBK0F9U#/screens/229<wbr>252091_Customization</a><br>
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My first reaction: I have no clue what "Overflow Menu" is, it sounds like a new feature (awesome bar, search bar, etc.). Turns out it's something that has been around for a while, I just had no idea that was its name.<br>
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Too bad there are no mentions in SUMO, there are currently zero strings referring to such UI element in the entire codebase, and even a Google search for it would only find irrelevant results for Fennec.<br>
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The localization note that Gijs is adding helps a lot[1], but still: do you think users are going to understand what "Pin to/Unpin From Overflow Menu" mean? Is that something that onboarding is going to fix and explain?<br>
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True, "it has existed for a while now without people being bothered by it or its name", but it interaction was limited and it wasn't used in user facing commands.<br>
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Francesco<br>
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[1] <a href="https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/1ff36fd81097" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://hg.mozilla.org/integra<wbr>tion/autoland/rev/1ff36fd81097</a><br>
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