As you may know, I'm new to the team, and as such have been doing a lot of poking at Koha from a librarian's perspective. I've submitted a few bugs and enhancements, but this one requires more than a simple enhancement request, this one needs the backing of a bunch of developers ;) - so here comes the trouble-maker part.
From a first time user and librarian's perspective, the names of some of the system prefs are way too confusing. The prime example (at least that I've found so are) is under OPAC Features and is titled 'reviewson' This preference controls the patrons 'Comments' that appear in the OPAC. Now, how is the average librarian or even the systems librarian supposed to know that 'reviewson' turns on commenting? Shouldn't it be 'commentson'?
My suggestion is either a renaming of system prefs (with librarian or usability expert input) or a way to change the way these labels are displayed to the user. Meaning the system can see 'reviewson' but I see 'CommentsOn'. I'm sure there are many others like this - I just haven't gotten to them yet - so I'm suggesting us discussing changing these in some way to improve the user experience and overall usability of the staff client in Koha. What do you all think? Let the tomato throwing begin! -- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com