Hello, This is a crossposted message asking questions about proofreading.
Please keep Dirk on CC in your answer as he's not subscribed to kde-doc-english. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Consistency in the UI Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 02:08:48 +0100 From: Dirk Doerflinger <[email protected]> To: kde-devel at kde.org Cc: kde-i18n at kde.org Hello, this is a crossposting, because I don't know who is/feels responsible for that. If there are any responses on the i18n-list, please CC to me as I'm not subscribed to the i18n list. While writing the docs for kicker I noticed that there is still a lot of inconsistency within the UI. Most of it are only details like some Labels with all words starting with a capital letter and others with only the first word capitalized. But there are bigger things like "Non-KDE Application"(e.g. in the "Add" menu of kicker's contex menu) vs. "Legacy Application"(in the settings), which could really trap some users and is also quite hard to put in a right shape in the docs. I guess that kicker isn't the only application where such things occur. IMHO it's quite neccessary to be as consistent as possible, though it may be a lot of work to keep everything in shape. There isn't a "technical" solution to that problem (like global i18n strings or whatever), is it? Another thing is - kicker specific - the inconsistency within the context menus of the applets. I think users could be quite confused when some apps have different menus when right clicking on the applet or clicking the small arrow-button in the handle. Could tthat be put in a common way, e.g. all settings in the handle-menu? I can provide a list of the inconsistencies I found if there is a need, or I could start correcting the strings within the sources. I could also fill out some bug reports about that. Does all that make sense? Regards, DD - - -- Dirk Doerflinger <dirk at doerflinger.org>
