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

On 2009-12-03 at 13:23:20 [+0100], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> 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?

It was argued that it is relatively (unnecessarily?) complicated and not 
intuitive. Others argued that Apple probably invested lots of money in 
related research, so there must be a good reasons.

CU, Ingo

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