Hi Tom, Barbara, *, 2011/1/17 Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Hi :) > > Drop-down list is the usual form known out there but it is quite generic. > People outside of LibreOffice do shorten it to "drop-down" fairly often but > "drop-down list" is probably better for formal documentation, especially > since > it is already more widely used. > I agree with you. "Drop down list" is a well known term and should be used in the documentation. > "Selection list", "selection menu" & "combo box" tend to be slightly more > specific and are trying to make it sound more posh and high-class. All > these > terms are less likely to be understood and "combo-box" is definitely tooo > geeky > for most people. However, they are legitimate as specific types of > drop-downs > so please lets not change them just to be consistent because that will > probably > detract from the perceived quality of our documentation. > I think, I have heard the term "combo box" only in the context of database related stuff. But since I'm not a base user, I don't have any experience there. Sigrid -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
