I think it's time that we move away from using three periods (...) to represent the ellipsis and instead use the Unicode character (…).
This style has already been adopted by Microsoft [1] and Apple [2]. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj553415.aspx#2._Exploit_the_power_of_Unicode [2] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/TextStyle/TextStyle.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000365-TPXREF126 On the other hand, I think it's less clear whether we should change command line output as the single Unicode ellipsis takes up significantly less space than three periods in a monospace font. Jeremy _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
