[haiku-development] Re: Checking consistency of used strings
- From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Development Haiku ML" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:11:19 +0100
-- Humdinger, on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:04:26 +0100:
> OK. We have two alternatives:
>
> 1) Title case (Apple):
> §1 Capitalize the first, last, and all major words (i.e. not
> "closed class")
> §2 For sentences, use sentence case
>
> pro:
> - used similarly by all major OS and apps
> - validated(?) by research done by big companies
> - we use it already, just not consistently
> con:
> - it's not natural English
>
> 2) Sentence case (Chrome)
> pro:
> - it's natural English
> - the rules would be extremly easy
> con:
> - all apps have to be adapted
> - ports would stick out a bit more
>
>
> I'm not sure further discussion will bring us closer to a consensus.
> Do you think it's time to vote?
I'm not sure how to procede from here. Should I file this as an
enhancement ticket, linking to this thread, so this tiring discussion
doesn't have to repeated from the beginning should anyone pick the
topic up again?
(For what it's worth, I'd still be willing to crawl the trunk to
correct the style.)
Regards,
Humdinger
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