Bug 129097

Summary:	HELP: Inconsistency between UI item name ("Name Box") and its naming in help ("Sheet Area box")
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Dione Maddern <dionemaddern>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dionemaddern, olivier.hallot, xiscofauli
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	target:24.8.0
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Attachments:	Name Box screenshot

Description Mike Kaganski 2019-11-29 10:30:47 UTC

Created attachment 156178 [details]
Name Box screenshot

In Calc, the leftmost element on Formula bar is named "Name Box" - as the tooltip on the screenshot suggests. However, in our help [1] [2] [3] it is named "Sheet Area box".

One or the other needs to be changed for consistency.

[1] https://help.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/scalc/01/04070100.html
[2] https://help.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/scalc/04/01020000.html
[3] https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/search?project=help&full=%22Sheet+Area%22

Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2019-12-16 13:09:01 UTC

@Oliver, what's your opinion ?

Comment 2 Mike Kaganski 2019-12-29 11:32:12 UTC

Also "Sheet Area Input Field" name is used in core in single place - for ".uno:FocusCellAddress" [1].

"Name Box" also is only used once - for the tooltip mentioned in comment 0 [2] - or twice, if count tips of the day [3].

[1] https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/UI/CalcCommands.xcu?r=017c6150#1226
[2] https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sc/inc/strings.hrc?r=0c1ab11c#174
[3] https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/cui/inc/tipoftheday.hrc?r=1bc50aca#185

Comment 3 Dione Maddern 2024-05-22 14:47:43 UTC

Does anybody object to me just changing it to "Sheet Area Box" everywhere?  

It's more descriptive of what the box does.

Comment 4 Commit Notification 2024-05-26 21:15:30 UTC

Dione Maddern committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/12e13425715a23ff426715e0bb7248d4aea55be9

tdf#129097 Fix inconsistent names for Name Box/Sheet Area Box

Comment 5 Commit Notification 2024-05-27 10:29:40 UTC

Dione Maddern committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/8cba63bac0833eb8af14e507c2f2123a39c4d595

tdf#129097 Remove extra word in help pages

Comment 6 Dione Maddern 2024-05-28 12:19:55 UTC

I ended up going the complete opposite way and using "Name Box" everywhere, after I looked at some more recent updates. But I've submitted a patch that I think resolves the problem