More questions about statusbar menu

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 02:58:31PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 05/09/2022 à 14:54, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit :
> > Am Montag, dem 05.09.2022 um 12:26 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes:
> > > 1/ the word/char checkboxes, would "Count Words" be clearer than
> > > "Word
> > > Count" ? (I think about themes where checkbox is not visible when
> > > off)
> > 
> > To me, word count is more intuitive (as in: show word count).
> 
> OK

I agree that "word count" is more intuitive. "count words" sounds nice
as a verb, but I don't think that's what we want here. "word count"
sounds nice and I think it's commonly used. A related phrase that's
commonly used is "head count". We take a head count when we want to
count how many people there are (e.g., at school when we go outside
during a fire drill).

I haven't been following this conversation but I just tested the current
feature in master and have a question: currently the word count is
inaccurate during the delayed calculation. Instead of displaying the
old/inaccurate word count, would it be better to just display "?", e.g.,
"? Words" ?

Scott


> > > 2/ we have to settle on wording:
> > >      statusbar:         Characters (No Blanks)
> > >      statusbar menu:    Character Count (Without Blanks)
> > >      statistics dialog: %1$d characters (excluding blanks)
> > 
> > I think I went with the statusbar variant for space reasons.
> 
> Would you advise using this everywhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> JMarc
> 
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