-- Ryan Leavengood, on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:49:23 -0500: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > >> "An ellipsis is a series of 3 dots (...) used to tell the user > > > that a > >> control -- often a menu item or button -- will open a window > > > asking for > >> additional information that is needed to complete the item's > > > function. For > >> example, "Print..." will open a dialog before it actually starts > > > printing. > >> No ellipses must be used, if the function already implies the > > > opening of a > >> window, like "Settings" opening a preferences panel or "Show Log" > > > opening a > >> window with some data." > So I at least give the go ahead for you to make some patches to > correct this in various Haiku applications. Thanks. The patches can then be evaluated and maybe adjusted if different opinions gain some traction. > > 2. Capitalization > > Does everyone agree on the definition in the HIG at > > http://factory.haiku-os.org/documentation/HIG/ch06s04.html: > > > >> "Use title capitalization in all places except where full > > > sentences are > >> used. This means that all "important" words and the last word in a > > > phrase -- > >> regardless of importance -- are capitalized. Prepositions, > > > definite > >> articles, and conjunctions (as, for, to, the, and, etc.) are > > > generally not > >> capitalized except when they are the first or last word in the > > > phrase, such > >> as in "Save As..."." > > This is pretty much what the Apple HIG says and I think it makes > sense. > > > Examples: > > "Capture Entire Screen", "Capture Active Window", "Take Screenshot > > after a Delay of x Seconds", "Back to Save", "Always on Top", > > "Tracker > > Always First" > > All of these are fine except the third ("Take Screenshot...") which I > think is a full sentence. In general once there are over 4 or 5 words > I think it is getting close to a full sentence and if it isn't one > maybe it should be made into one. I agree. Maybe that should be added as well. As a rule of thumb. > One example from this thread is the > Mail preference "Check every _x_ [Minutes]", which could become > "Check > for mail every _x_ [minutes]". Yes, or as Jonas suggested, something like "Check for mail every [5/10/30 minutes]". > > 3. Settings, Options, Preferences > > * I suggest to only use "Preferences", if the opened panel is a > > system > > preference, also available from Deskbar|Preferences. For example: > > Tracker, Deskbar, E-mail. > > > > * All others should be "Settings" as that corresponds to their > > location > > in ~/config/settings/ > > This sounds pretty reasonable. Still the whole preference versus > settings thing is a bit ambiguous. Besides our BeOS legacy is there > any reason to call all those little apps preferences and not > settings? As a non-native, the difference to me is subtle and neglectable. A "preference" points more to a matter of taste while "setting" is a bit more like hard data. For example, colours are preferences, mail account information is a setting. The borders are of course very blurry. So, I'd be OK with "Settings" for everything. > Looking at the Settings > menu in Terminal, which has a "Preferences..." submenu (hmmm) I think > the font and font size selection in the Preferences window could be > moved into the Settings menu. Ticket #5030 deals in detail with the Terminal situation... :) > In that sense Apple > has things right with there "App" menu on every application: it is an > obvious location for a settings or preferences menu item. Yep. Plus "About {app}", "Help", "Quit" etc. > > My work would be limited to providing patches to change strings. > > Any > > coding changes, like e.g. moving "Settings" from "Edit" to it's own > > menu (if that would even be desirable) would have to be discussed > > elsewhere and implemented by a programmer. > > Yeah that makes sense. Someday I could tackle some of the more > developer-oriented fixes. No no, Ryan. You go back to your WebKit. :) After doing that CTRL+ALT+RMB for window resizing, of course. How's that going? :) Regards, Humdinger -- --=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=- Deutsche Haiku News @ http://www.haiku-gazette.de