New media: What on earth does the mystery "Random" checkbox do?

[johnbillion]

No, really. What does it do? This badly needs an explanation.

Evidently it displays the images in a random order, but it could just as well be random columns (seeing as it's positioned immediately below the Columns dropdown) or, due to its complete lack of context, random images.

This may even benefit from being moved up next to the 'Reverse Order' button

[westi]

Note, if we add the word "Order" to the string I don't think we need the context any more as it was only recently added from memory.

[nacin]

I think this is a good change. And westi is right.

[pavelevap]

I proposed related change, see #22724. In our localization I added "order" context, but did not realize that it should be also probably done in original. Context can be removed also from the "Random" string (there will be only one now).

Longer string will also cause problems for many more languages, see #22812.

If there will be other string changes in 3.5, could you also resolve related "Describe" and "Describe this image" problem? See ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22759#comment:16

[CoenJacobs]

Next to text change, also drop context

[CoenJacobs]

"Link to" text also has to be changed

[CoenJacobs]

I agree the context string can go. Added 22821-2.diff as a simple patch.

BUT

When we are going to change this text, the "Link To" looks very odd as well. This should be referring to the thumbnails of the gallery, as this is not clear because it is listed under 'Gallery settings'. 22821-3.diff is a quick change for both strings, but should also get some CSS love (I guess) since the elements are not properly aligned anymore due to to length of the string.

[nacin]

I'd like to change only "Random" here, for now. I don't think "Link To", is going to be a problem, and also, "Link Thumbnails To" doesn't call all situations. (There are cases when it might be an image larger than a thumbnail.)

While I wouldn't mind flipping the checkbox and the string here, I think ​http://cl.ly/image/0t452D2b0s1n is very reasonable for longer strings.

[nacin]

In 23135:

Two media gallery string changes, for clarity:

• 'Random' to 'Random Order', to be clear what it controls.
• 'Describe this image...' to 'Caption this image...', to be clear it links to the Caption field and not the revived Description field, see [23083].

props johnbillion, pavelevap.
fixes #22821.

[nacin]

In 23138:

Two media gallery string changes, for clarity:

• 'Random' to 'Random Order', to be clear what it controls.
• 'Describe this image...' to 'Caption this image...', to be clear it links to the Caption field and not the revived Description field, see [23083].

props johnbillion, pavelevap.
fixes #22821.

Merges [23135] to the 3.5 branch.