On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:50 AM, <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The ellipsis character (...) after a menu item means that > the command needs more information from the user before > the operation executes. > > The ellipsis character doesn’t simply mean that a dialog > box or window will appear. > > The window appearing completes the command and doesn’t > require additional input from the user before it executes. That may be the case on some other OSes, but not according to our HIG: http://api.haiku-os.org/HIG/ch06s02.html Regards, Rene