On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Burkhard L?ck <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, 18:10:25 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth: >> Readding the list since others hopefully will have comments... >> >> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Burkhard L?ck <lueck at hube-lueck.de> >> wrote: >> > Here a list of missing gui elements from the 3.5 visual dictionary -most >> > of >> > them covered by Claus' version on userbase: >> > Button, Check Box, Color Selector, Combo Box, Context Menu, Dialog Box, >> > Drop Down Box, Icon List, List Box, Progress Bar, Radio Button, Scrollbar >> > or Scroll Bar?, Slider, Spin Box, Tab, Tabbed Window, Text Box >> >> I've filled in the dictionary part for all these missing items now, >> except for Tabbed Window. I'm not aware of any use of tabs that are >> not in such a configuration, so it seemed rather redundant. >> >> I also decided to distinguish a Text Box (e.g. QLineEdit) from a Text >> Area (e.g. QTextEdit) because IMHO there are enough differences in >> appearance and behavior (e.g. what happens when you press Enter) to >> warrant distinguishing the two. >> > Makes sense to me > >> Is everyone okay with these two modifications? Is the draft [1] >> missing any other widgets? Please also have a look at the >> descriptions and suggest any improvements, some of them came out a >> little awkward and I'm not sure exactly how best to fix. >> > Some minor issues: > > * Reducing the width of the window leads to many line breaks in Description > column of the table and make the text difficult to read. Could you make the > Screenshot column narrower ?
I'll try, there are a couple that could stand to be narrower. > * Regarding the wording/spelling of the widgets (scrollbar vs scroll bar etc.) > I have attached the file preferred_forms used on english.breakfast.org to > check > the docbooks and a statistic from stable (4,10) of all widget names and their > spelling. Of course we should sync this spelling with ebn. Excellent, I'll fix up the few that don't match that shortly. > * Should we use the "The Plasma Desktop" section from > http://userbase.kde.org/User:Claus_chr/Visual_Dictionary ? IDK, Fundamentals really doesn't cover much Plasma stuff at all; we leave that to the Plasma Handbook. But we cover the window border and such in Fundamentals already, which is also more desktop than application, so maybe we should include it? > Apart from that I am ok with your proposal. > > Thanks. -T.C.
