Hi :) +1 I agree with Dan too. My knee-jerk reaction was a different way but when i thought about how i teach it to colleagues or students i realised i do what Dan suggested.
The caveat is that as people have been saying a shorter sentence, just "Click Save" is enough and less confusing imo. I think if you are running through what the different icons do or why to use the toolbar icon rather than another method then that is when it might be worth being more verbose imo. That is just my opinion and i lack context and don't work on the guides themselves so you probably have a better idea of what's appropriate. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Peter Schofield <[email protected]> >To: Dan Lewis <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2013, 15:44 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Button or icon > >Hello > >I agree with Dan. > >Those nice pictograms on toolbars should be called icons. Buttons when pressed >normally give the impression that you have just pressed a button. When you >click an icon, a tool or dialog opens and there is no impression of a button >being pressed. > >Regards > >PeterS > > >On 24 Jan 2013, at 15:50, Dan Lewis wrote: > >> On 01/24/2013 09:37 AM, John Smith wrote: >>> Hi all >>> To have a consistent instruction across the documents, do we, for example, >>> say 'Click the Save button' or 'Click the Save icon'? >>> Is button reserved for such items as 'OK', 'Cancel', 'Apply' for example? >>> >>> JohnS >>> >> 1. Or do we refer to the elements of a toolbar as tools? What we see on >>the toolbar are icons, but they represent tools. >> 2. I think I would prefer to use the term icon; and when it is clicked, >>it opens the corresponding tool. >> 3. Personal opinion: buttons should be reserved for items in the shape >>of a button such as those already mentioned. One of the icons in the Forms >>Control toolbar opens a tool to create a button. Anything looking like it >>possibly ought to be called a button. (my 2 cents worth) >> >> --Dan >> >> --Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to >> [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> > > >--Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
