suggestion for language, grammar improvement

Summary:

This is to suggest language improvements in Preferences. (These issues are being discovered as we write the new manual. So items are being added, ongoing.)

The following is about the status bar.

1 - Preferences > Interface > Show zoom percentage corrected by factor:

"Show zoom percentage, corrected by factor above"

Adding comma and "above" would make it more easily understandable for less technically oriented users.

2 - Preferences > Interface > Show Layer Selector" change to:

"Show Layer Indicator"

For the last few versions, the Layer Selector in the status bar has been changed to an indicator. You can no longer select or activate layers from the status bar. (It's possible I submitted a request some time ago, to replace the original selector. So of course, if that goes through, this change is not needed.)

3 - Preferences > Interface > Toolbars

The top half of this page, the section with all the icons. The heading is "Toolbars". I suggest it is supposed to be "Toolbox". (because these are all icons in the toolbox)

4 - Preferences > Interface > Windows > Dialogs are hidden in taskbar.

The tooltip needs a tweak. It's "Whether dialogs are to be hidden in window manager taskbar". But I don't think window managers actually have taskbars. I think it means the system's taskbar. So my suggestion is to change it to this:

"Whether dialogs are to be hidden in taskbar"

5 - Preferences > Interface > Grids

The title or heading says "Line color when zooming out". I suggest it should just be "Line Color".

Edit -- Also, I think the tooltip for this item: "Zoom percentage can either be either physical units or pixels." belongs with the setting just above this one, in Preferences dialog. As far as I understand what this setting does, it's not related to units.

For a tooltip for this item, I would suggest something like "Show the corrected zoom value in the Zoom field"

6 -- Regarding Edit menu > Clone > Relink to Copied

~~I suggest language improvement. Because it comes right after Unlink Clone, it's too easy to think Relink puts them back together. But in reality, once something it unlinked, it cannot be relinked, except by Create Clone.

I'm not sure the best solution, but these are my thoughts. Definitely drop the Re. Maybe Link to Copied, or Link Clone to Copied, or maybe even Convert to Copied, since it could completely change the clone.~~

Actually the tooltip is fine 😃

After some discussion, Switch Clone Source was settled on.

Thanks again.

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Edited by brynn brynn