I've always been aware of the ellipsis on menus.
--- Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The definition is quite clear and is in the HIG:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-design.html
* Label the menu item with a trailing ellipsis
(...) only if the
command
On Mar 15, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Sergej Kotliar wrote:
...
When translating some apps into Swedish, I noticed some strings had
triple dots (...) after them. Turned out - most of them were in the
menus. Since I had never thought about their existence, I decided to
find out what they meant. By looking
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 13:28 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
* The use of three dots to indicate a dialog opening seems rather
oldfashioned - can't we have something better now?
That's probably your worst reason. Old is not a synonym for bad.
It's also semantically correct (in English at
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 18:30 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
Wanting to set the volume to a level so that you do not hear is a
special case. Just wanting to set volume lower isn't.
The term for this special case is mute not 0. I was not arguing that
simply wanting to lower the volume was a special
--- Jaap Haitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If there aren't any other people who feel like me
that there should be a
0 icon to represent, I'm happy to go with your
suggested improvement
that the 0% volume is shown as low instead of
muted as it is now.
I agree with you entirely.
0 is a
--- Rodney Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The icon makes absolutely no sense. There's no
reason to have a single
icon for 1/101 values, and 3 others for 33.33../100
values each. And by
your argument that a single ) is not representative
of the 0% level, the
same can be said for no ), as
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:28:20 +
From: Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sergej Kotliar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: usability@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Usability] The use of ellipsis (...) in menus
On Mar 15, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Sergej
Another vocab question:
The User Guide section 'Basic Skills' lists things it
calls 'Mouse actions': click, double-click, drag, etc.
But then it says:
You can perform the following actions with the mouse:
Left mouse button
* Select text.
* Select items.
* Drag items.
Rodney Dawes wrote:
And other than the case where a non-GNOME application is setting the
volume on the hardware itself to 0, how many people are really going to
hold down the lower volume key, rather than just pressing mute? Another
thing we need to do, is to make it easy to mute the volume,
