Re: Rename context "Properties..." menu to "Edit Object..."

Hi Dave,

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:59 PM Dave Page <dave(dot)page(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
wrote:

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>
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 11:11, Aditya Toshniwal <
> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hackers,
>>
>> One of the users had raised a concern regarding confusing "Properties"
>> label - one on the tab (read only) and another one on context(to edit) -
>> https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/4734. We are using the
>> label "Edit the object" on the Edit button of the properties tab already.
>> So I suggest we should rename the context "Properties..." to "Edit
>> Object..."
>> for consistency as well as to make it more meaningful.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> I disagree. "Properties" is the standard name for that type of dialogue
> throughout Windows and many/most Linux windowing systems (e.g. Gnome). On
> macOS, the equivalent is "Get Info". I don't think we should deviate from
> a few decades of use of that name based on a single ticket (if anything,
> maybe we should make it say "Get Info" when the UI is displayed on a mac).
>
> Dave's point in his bug report is mostly that we also use the term
> "Properties" for the panel in the main UI in which we display some
> properties (but not all, and sometimes extra, over what is in the
> dialogue). I would not object to renaming that panel to "Object Summary" or
> similar, to correspond with "Object Explorer".
>
> Which then leads to another thought - we've used one-word naming in the
> past for tabs. We now have "Object Explorer", and I just suggested "Object
> Summary" - but those imply we should also have "Object Dependencies",
> "Object Dependents", and "Object SQL", which I definitely do not like.
>
> So maybe everything should have a one word label?
>
I am fine with renaming the tab instead of the context menu. We can rename
the "Properties" tab to just "Summary"/"Info" and everything works as
before. We don't need to add "Object" to tabs.

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Thanks,
Aditya Toshniwal
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