Issue 122049

Summary:	[Sidebar]A new wording for text displayed on Properties deck when no object is selected
Product:	Draw	Reporter:	rgb <rgb.mldc>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	Andre <awf.aoo>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	4.0.0-dev
Target Milestone:	4.0.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---
Issue Depends on:
Issue Blocks:	121420

Description rgb 2013-04-14 01:06:13 UTC

With the sidebar enabled, on a Draw document with no object selected the Properties deck shows no controls and displays a text 

"Properties for the task that you are performing are not available in the sidebar at this time"

This text is a bit misleading, because it is not clear that you only need to select an object to see something there. I propose to change it to something like

"Please, select an object to access its properties"

or something similar.

Comment 1 Andre 2013-04-23 12:30:21 UTC

The text is adapted from the text Symphony displays in the same situation.
I agree, the text could be worded better.

@RGB: Can you provide a concrete proposal?  Maybe first discuss it on the mailing list?

Comment 2 rgb 2013-04-23 19:47:14 UTC

@Andre: I started a thread on Dev mailing list 

http://markmail.org/message/xgjvt7ooofm3kyev

Comment 3 SVN Robot 2013-05-06 08:40:48 UTC

"af" committed SVN revision 1479493 into trunk:
122049: Changed text of 'empty' panel.

Comment 4 Andre 2013-05-06 08:43:12 UTC

Changed text to
 
"Properties for the task that you are performing are not available for the current selection"

Also, there is now a panel for inserting shapes, so that this text will not be visible in Draw by default (see bug 122218).