Settings vs. Configure for UI text?

Created on 15 July 2015, over 9 years ago
Updated 24 February 2023, almost 2 years ago

Problem/Motivation

Sometime in the Drupal 7 cycle, a decision was (apparently?) made that the word "Settings" was out, and "Configure" or "Configuration" was in.

https://www.drupal.org/node/604342#wording β†’

However, we have a lot of pages in the Drupal 8 admin UI that are called "Settings" and/or that have "settings" in their URL.

What should we do about this? Should either:

a) Fix the UI text standards page so it reflects reality... if we do this, then maybe we should also go fix the pages labeled "configure" or "configuration" to say "settings" again? Probably they should all be consistent.

b) Fix the UI so it conforms to the standards -- rename the "settings" pages to be "configure" or "configuration.

Proposed resolution

1. Decide whether the standards or the UI is wrong.

2. Fix the one that is wrong.

Remaining tasks

Decide.
Fix.

User interface changes

A more consistent UI that conforms to our standards.

API changes

None.

Data model changes

None.

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Status

Active

Version

10.1 ✨

Component
UI textΒ  β†’

Last updated 4 days ago

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Created by

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States jhodgdon Spokane, WA, USA

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