Replace the term "to reinitialize"

[Chris Lyttle]

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 04:05, Christian Stimming wrote:
> The term "to reinitialize a transaction" is used as a menu item in the 
> register.  The action that this menu item should perform is: Remove all 
> splits in the selected transaction except the one that is attached to 
> the currently opened register.
> 
> I think the term "reinitialize" is seriously misleading here. To me, 
> "reinitialize" sounds similar to "set to default", but the meaning of 
> both in the context of a selected transaction is totally unclear. For 
> example, the "default" for a newly entered transaction can be seen as 
> those values that are filled in through the auto-completion features. On 
> the other hand, the "default" of a transaction could also be seen to be 
> a totally empty transaction, but then the mentioned action would just 
> mean "to delete the transaction".
> 
> If we want to have such an action available that deletes the other 
> splits in a transaction, I would suggest a wording like
> "Delete other splits",
> or "Almost delete transaction",
> or "Delete rest of transaction",
> or "Partly delete transaction"
> -- anyhow, as you can see I would like to have the word "delete" in it 
> since that is what this action is supposed to do. What do people think?
> 
I really think 'delete' implies 'to remove the transaction'. I would
prefer a wording such as 'Erase Transaction Splits' or 'Clear
Transaction Splits'.

Chris
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