Issue 122049 - [Sidebar]A new wording for text displayed on Properties deck when no object is selected
Summary: [Sidebar]A new wording for text displayed on Properties deck when no object i...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Draw
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 4.0.0-dev
Hardware: All All
: P3 Normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.0.0
Assignee: Andre
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Blocks: [sidebar]
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Reported: 2013-04-14 01:06 UTC by rgb
Modified: 2022-10-28 12:54 UTC (History)
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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).