[haiku-development] Re: Checking consistency of used strings
- From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Development Haiku ML" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:34:10 +0100
-- Jonas Sundström, on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:09:20 +0100 CET:
> > Check every _10_ [Minutes]
>
> I think this kind of structure - where 3 consecutive GUI
> objects of different kind (string display, entry and menu
> dropdown) make a sentence in English - imposes a structure
> on other languages where a different order could be preferred.
>
> I suggest that we try to replace these instances of A-B-C
> with a more versatile A:B, like
>
> "Check bla bla:" [Every 10 Minutes]
> This of course limits one's choice to the given menu items,
> which is okay IMO. (I say checking mail every 27 minutes or
> every third Monday is a wonderful 3rd party opportunity.)
Right. :)
Or have some GUI widget to in/decrease a value and have that sensibly
change from minutes/hours.
In any case, that's an implementation question for a coder. I'm more
concerned if what I was proposing in my initial post (ellipses,
capitalization, menu naming), can be agreed upon, and if I should start
to work on that.
Regards,
Humdinger
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