[haiku-development] Re: Checking consistency of used strings

-- Jorge G. Mare, on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:05:30 -0800:
> 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]

This is a "very awkward case" for you? :)

I admit that as a German I'm not much bothered with capitalized words, 
as every German noun is.
It's probably best not to let Ze Sherman decide it... :)

At the moment it looks like Haiku pretty much emulates Apple's HIG 
(http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGText/XHIGText.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000365-TPXREF106)
es/XHIGText/XHIGText.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000365-TPXREF106)

I'm don't care awfully much on the outcome, as long as it's consistent. 
It may be a good idea, however, not to dismiss what years of 
professional research of a successful billion dollar company came up 
with.

> 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

Help me, what's the difference of these two:
> - Group boxes
> - Frames labels

> - Column headings

What about menus and menu items, buttons? Title case, right? 

> Other than that, all labels should use normal capitalization; that 
> would 
> be the natural thing IMO and what would also make interpreting the UI 
> easier.

Hopefully other natives have a opinion on that. As I said, as a hun, I 
may be biased towards capitalization.

Regards,
Humdinger

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