While putting together the UI spec for the OpenSolaris desktop, I took the opportunity of reviewing all our .desktop file Comments, which appear as menu or launcher tooltips. Needless to say, despite HIG guidance on the subject, there isn't much consistency, and some of them are less than helpful.
Now, Sun doesn't particularly want to maintain local patches for dozens of tooltips; equally, we don't want to go round filing dozens of individual bugs (at least not straight away), as some maintainers would probably make the change, and others would think it not worth the effort, so we'd still end up with a bit of an inconsistent mess. Instead, I thought it might be better to write up our proposal in full, so people could see the big picture of the kind of descriptions and consistency I think we should be aiming for: http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityTeam/Menu I don't claim all the descriptions are perfect, and it's possible I've missed some core apps off the list (or put them in the wrong place) as our OpenSolaris builds are still a bit transitional at the moment. Feel free to update the list accordingly in either case... put your name in the last column so I know who to harass if I don't agree :) (There are also some non-GNOME apps in there, like OO.o, but I left them in for the hell of it.) If maintainers do want to work straight from this list, just mark the "In CVS" column as "Y" when you've made the change, I guess. Or if you'd rather I filed dozens of bugs instead, I'll file dozens of bugs instead. Or if you think it's all a waste of time, I'll shut up... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
