Hallo Joachim, Humdinger wrote:
2. Capitalization Does everyone agree on the definition in the HIG at http://factory.haiku-os.org/documentation/HIG/ch06s04.html:
<snip...>The existing rules lend themselves to capitalizing a lot of text labels that IMO do not equate to titles, and as a result in Haiku the use of title case has become excessive in the form of pervasive capitalization of field labels, drop-down box/list labels, radio button labels, and very awkward cases like in the E-mail settings applet where you have a label, field and drop-down list that reads like this:
Check every _10_ [Minutes]To me, what we should ask ourselves is what equates to a title in a computer GUI, and apply title case to those elements only. Without giving it much thought, here is a (most probably incomplete) list of elements that would fall under this category:
- Title bars - Tab sections - Group boxes - Frames labels - Column headingsOther than that, all labels should use normal capitalization; that would be the natural thing IMO and what would also make interpreting the UI easier.
Cheers, Jorge/aka Koki