[haiku-development] Re: Checking consistency of used strings
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:23:20 +0100
Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > What were the arguments against sentence case again?
> > I only have one:
> > Consistency. Every application out there, and in our repository,
> > uses
> > title case. All other operating systems (and thus all GUI
> > applications
> > we may port, ie. Firefox, Qt apps, etc.) use title case.
> Yeah, different versions of title case. Which is quite the opposite
> of
> consistent, isn't it?
Well, yes. However, different versions of title case don't stick out
that much compared to sentence case vs. title case.
Complete consistency can, of course, only be achieved inside our
repository. I'm just arguing that we should follow the usual GUIs and
use title case. Since it's already written down in Apple's HIG, why not
just using that one?
Bye,
Axel.
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