Hey Jarlath,

On 3/1/09, Jarlath Reidy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Hi folks,
>
>  I've posted this on ubuntuforums, launchpad and somewhere else I can't
> remember. I've been gradually pointed to this mailing list.
>
>  Basically, there are some inconsistencies between applications on the Gnome
> desktop. I understand that OpenOffice is not a part of Gnome.
>

>From your ubuntuforums post, it seems like you found an incosistency
between the way some GNOME apps express the same idea.
While we can't pretend to have the exact same phrase in every dialog
(think text document versus email draft), we can at least try to be
consistent.

The first thing now would be to agree on what's a better phrase for
the action of "closing an editor and being asked on what do to with
unsaved changes" in general, like:
 - preserve my changes: save|save as
 - throw away my changes: discard
 - keep working: cancel

If we agree on that, I think you can file bugs for all the apps you
find using different phrases.
Then again, we need some consensus for this, anyone? :-)

thanks!
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