Subject: Re: Word count nitpicks
From: Joaquín Cuenca Abela (cuenca@ie2.u-psud.fr)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 13:58:47 CST
Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>
> > I must be missing something here. Under the apple menu on a Mac 7.5.x
> > system, the first menu item is:
> >
> > About This Macintosh...
> >
> > If you ask me, that's a pretty compelling precedent. Even simple dialogs
> > get dots.
>
> I knew someone would bring this up. The about dialogs on Macs have ...'s
> even though according to the spec they shouldn't. If you ask me, having
> the ... for anything that brings up a dialog is fine, I was just wondering
> whether Abi had standardized on a meaning for the three dots.
The gnome guidelines says that only the menu items that will need
additional info from the user to achieve its goal must to have ...'s.
It says too, that the About menu item don't have to have ...'s.
(If we are goint to follow the gnome guidelines or not is another
history...)
-- Joaquín Cuenca Abela e-mail: cuenca@ie2.u-psud.fr
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