On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
jkn <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Friday, 13 September 2013 14:18:37 UTC+1, Terry wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 03:41:06 -0700 (PDT) 
> > rholland <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >
> > > 1) no ellipsis for flyouts - the triangle provides the indication 
> > > 2) use an ellipsis if the primary menu brings up a dialog box (or 
> > something 
> > > that require further user input). 
> >
> > +1, they're redundant where the only indicate sub-menus, as the 
> > triangles do that. 
> >
> > I think of ellipsis as a promise not to act immediately without further 
> > input - e.g. I often use the Print... menu rather than a print button 
> > because I want to know for sure the software's going to ask for 
> > settings etc. and not just Print immediately. 
> >
> > Cheers -Terry 
> >
> 
> I agree with this, and surely this means that (on the main 'file' menu,  
> there should be ellipses on:
> 
> Save As ...
> Save as Unzipped...
> Save To ...
> Import File ...

100% of the very small number of apps. I just checked seem to follow
that convention.

Cheers -Terry

> 
>     J^n
> 

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