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Guides misuse "populate" verb #134

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Chealer opened this issue Jun 8, 2024 · 0 comments
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Guides misuse "populate" verb #134

Chealer opened this issue Jun 8, 2024 · 0 comments

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Chealer commented Jun 8, 2024

The Setup Browser Integration section of both the User Guide and the Getting Started Guide misuse the term "populate". This affects the following sentences:

The KeePassXC-Browser extension is installed within your web browser so that you can automatically pull usernames and passwords from KeePassXC and populate them directly into website fields.

The KeePassXC-Browser extension lets you automatically populate the entries from your KeePassXC database into the fields on websites you visit.

The object of "to populate" is something (partially) empty which is populated with something that fills it. For example, a password field can be populated, but a password cannot.

By the way:

  • These sentences are very similar and may be redundant.
  • The first sentence is misleading (KeePassXC-Browser is not installed within my web browser).
  • While the other 2 uses of "populate" in the User Guide are not incorrect, they are unneeded. It would be clearer/shorter to just use "fill" instead.
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