[haiku-development] Re: Variety of quit/save dialogs
- From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:28:41 +0100
Hi Lauri Nurmi!
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:18:11 +0200 Lauri Nurmi wrote:
> > - "Don't save" is the obvious negation of "Save" and therefore even
> > for
> > people with only a rudimentary knowledge of English obvious in an
> > instant. "Discard" isn't as trivial. Being two words also serves to
> > distinguish the label quickly.
>
> If the decision is made to avoid 'difficult' English words, then the
> language should probably be called Simple English, and such policy
> should affect all the text strings in Haiku, not just one button in
> one
> dialog.
It wasn't. That was just one argument in favour of that solution.
Regards,
Humdinger
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