Bug 139302 - [UI] Demote Chapter in navigator
Summary: [UI] Demote Chapter in navigator
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Navigator
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Reported: 2020-12-29 10:14 UTC by Olivier Hallot
Modified: 2023-02-19 00:13 UTC (History)
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Description Olivier Hallot 2020-12-29 10:14:11 UTC
The terms "Demote chapter" and "Promote chapter" in Navigator UI are wrong/misleading.

Definition of demote (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demote)

transitive verb
1 : to reduce to a lower grade or rank demote a student was demoted from major to captain
2 : to relegate to a less important position a pitcher demoted to the bullpen


The commands "Demote chapter" and "Promote Chapter" in Navigator  are to move chapter/heading and its contents in another place in the document, preserving the outline levels and contents.

Suggestions: 
"Move heading down in document", "Move heading up in document"
"Move chapter down in document", "Move chapter up in document"
"Move heading down", "Move heading up"
"Move chapter down", "Move chapter up"
Comment 1 Olivier Hallot 2020-12-29 10:22:01 UTC
Strings affected

navigatorcontextmenu|STR_DEMOTE_CHAPTER  ikRHB
navigatorpanel|chapterdown|tooltip_text  MRuAa

navigatorcontextmenu|STR_PROMOTE_CHAPTER  CQSp3
navigatorpanel|chapterup|tooltip_text   SndsZ
Comment 2 Olivier Hallot 2020-12-29 10:54:31 UTC
"Move heading downward", "Move heading upward"
Comment 3 Dieter 2021-01-13 07:00:43 UTC
cc: Design-Team
cc: Jim Raykowski
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2021-01-18 12:24:33 UTC
Stuart, this needs input from a native speaker. What's your take?
Comment 5 V Stuart Foote 2021-01-18 15:54:08 UTC
I'll defer to Jim R. But in 'Content Navigation View' these are not just the "Headings" rather their associated content, i.e. the "Chapter" between the heading levels.

Promote also means "move upward in a hierarchy"; Demote means "move downward in a hierarchy".

So while Promote and Demote are a little awkward applied for [Chapter] relocations, in this Navigator tree view of a document's outline, these control lables are consisten with the "Promote [Outline] Level"/"Demote [Outline] Level" controls present in the same block. 

I don't perceive a reason to adjust, and not sure anything would be better. 

The "Move heading down/up..." or "Move chapter down/up..." of OP offer no real improvement--and I suspect l10n would have issues compared to simple promote/demote use.
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2021-01-18 16:43:34 UTC
_Move_ X up/down is less clear since moving could mean to place the chapter somewhere else in the document, makes reading in a glimpse harder because both start with Move, and the terms are in use since the dawn of time and familiar to the users (or localized).

So I take Stuarts comment and resolve the issue as NAB and let Jim reopen in case he advocates for some other terms.
Comment 7 Jim Raykowski 2021-01-18 17:20:02 UTC
Promote/Demote Chapter/Level were used as the tool tips for controls in the Navigator tool box when the content tree context menu enhancement was done.

Either Promote/Demote or Up/Down work for me.