Posted by pwolanin on May 5, 2007 at 2:21am
"Book" is fine, don't change it
21% (21 votes)
"Outline"
35% (35 votes)
"Hierarchy"
15% (15 votes)
"Structure"
16% (16 votes)
"Outliner"
14% (14 votes)
Total votes: 101
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The perfect word hasn't come
The perfect word hasn't come up yet, it's on the tip of my tongue, but so far I vote for structure...
Simple is best
Simple is best
This reminds me of the phrase "simple is best."
In general, things that are simple are easy-to-use. So, what is the significance of being simple here?
Normally, being simple means the state of having few features or little information, BUT easy to understand for all people in a common mean.
If we use simplicity as a guideline, we can improve usability of Drupal.
For instance, if you compare an computer application and a Drupal website created with HTML, although they may both have the same functionality, the Drupal website created with HTML is usually easier to use.
This is a result of the fact that HTML has many constraints, which by nature makes it difficult to create complicated functions.
Drupal is so complex that at least we have simple the pieces.
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Organize
Johan Forngren mentioned 'organize' as a possibility. I dig that.
How about the "Presentation"
How about the "Presentation" module --
Creating an organized list of nodes in a structured format is a way of presenting content.
The downside to this name is that it runs the risk of being misconstrued as something that sets up a presentation like a slideshow -- but, this misconception would be quickly laid to rest once the module was put to use.
On the dev list, some concern was expressed about "outliner" having no good translations in other languages -- I don't think "Presentation" would have this issue.
Cheers,
Bill
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changing my mind
I was favoring "Outline" but after more consideration, I think "Structure" might be best (at least in English). An "Outline" module might thought to be as much related to writing as "Book".
Obviously, the final say goes to Dries/Steven/Gabor.
ehm... this is my
ehm... this is my opinion:
Presentation, sounds a bit like slideshow.
Hierachy, confusing because of Taxonomy hierarchy.
Structure, another word that scares people like Taxonomy. Why not rename Taxonomy?
Outliner, then lets take Outline. Why make the word longer than necessary?
Book, simple word. Easy to translate. Suggestive. Does not sound like wizardry...
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Vote for UI Consitency
We should think about naming this consistent with the Tab that's used to manage it. Right now it's outline, but it's possible that this is too confusing to the users. What about TOC or Table_of_contents. Site admins should have a clue as to which module to enable for a piece of the corresponding piece of functionality. Especially if it's not going to be "on by default".
Dave
Another suggestion
Perhaps this is a bad one, but what about 'node tree'? It at least elicits the right visual image of what it does. Nodes arranged starting at a trunk and branching out to leaves.
keeping it named "book" should NOT even be an option
Polling is fine
but let's keep Dries' very well informed opinion in mind when choosing a name:
I asked the following three questions in my office
I asked the following three questions in my office
Note that I did not mention Drupal.
Here are the questions followed by the point form gist of their answers
1) "What does outlining a website mean to you?"
- site map
- table of contents
- overview page
2) "What does structuring a website mean to you?"
- Deciding what links to what?
- Deciding what content goes in what area of the page
3) "What does organizing a website mean to you?"
- cleaning up unnecessary content
- making sure content is well related
According to my (very) simple usability survey:
"outlining" is conceptually too close to a "site map"
"organizing" is understood in terms of semantics
"structure" is the closest fit that I could find, (although is still a little confusing)
If the goal is to make this module more "usable" by making this terminology easy to understand for those new to Drupal, we NEED to ask those NEW to Drupal. We wouldn't commit a performance enhancement without benchmarking. Why would we commit a module rename without asking ordinary people to see what sense it makes to them?
For those of you working in an office environment,
Ask around to see what people answer to the above three questions
Simple usability testing only really requires 5 users to get an idea
my $2.
Missing: "Tree"
I'd suggest calling it after what it does - generating trees. That's short and simple.
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I would be happy with
I would be happy with Outline(r), but I must say that I really like Tree. It's more suggestive than other words.
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Hierarchy
I asked people around me and the consensus here (we're programmers, graphic designers and branding consultants) is that the name "Outliner" is synonymous with OmniOutliner. Here is what one of our principals said:
It's easy to get too abstract and think of "trees" and such when designing a UI. Unless a user immediately understands the abstract terminology, I strongly believe it isn't going to work. Our vote is for "Hierarchy."
For crying out loud
It's a book module, keep it simple :)) books are fun to read, outlines suck
Structured Document
How about something more like, "Structured Document," "Organized Document", but not those exactly.
P.S.> I think there should be "other" as a vote option, for those not diggin' the current choices.
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