[haiku-commits] Re: r40959 - haiku/trunk/src/kits/shared

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:15:00 -0700

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Philippe Houdoin
<philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I always thought the ellipsis just indicates that the menu item will open a
>> window.
>
> Usually it indicates the some extra step(s) will be needed before
> doing actually what the action text state.
> It's also a good indication that the change this action could do will
> not apply yet.
>
> In this case, there is no extra step before actually getting some
> "about" information, so ellipsis is not needed.

Maybe someone should clarify that in the existing "HIG" that was
decided upon some time ago:

http://api.haiku-os.org/HIG/ch06s02.html

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