I want to add To complete what has been said here: There is an ellipsis if performing the action requires additional user interaction.
Things like "Preferences", "Help", or "About" do usually not have "..." in the menu entry, even though they open a new dialog, because the dialog itself is what user wants to see, not something the user has to interact with before the actual action is performed. Best regards, Z. PS: I am also in Brussels and looking forward to Gabor's presentation. I know that Claudio will also be at FOSDEM. Any other Padre users/developers present as well? On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Peter Lavender <pla...@internode.on.net> wrote: > To me the ... represents "There is something following this that you need to > take action on..." > > Anything that just "does it" doesn't need the ellipsis. > > Which is what wikipedia says: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis#In_computer_interfaces > Looking at the File menu of Padre I see > Open... > Save As... > Open Session... > Save Session... > Print... > > and the others don't have ... (three dots). > > Is there a rule when we should add them and when not? > > If I am not mistaken there are 4 typs of menu items: > > 1) Immediate actions - the menu will do something real > 2) Delayed actions - the menu will open a dialog or otherwise ask for > permission > 3) A mix of 1) and 2) (e.g. Open Selections sometimes behaves like 1) > sometimes like 2) > 4) Opening submenues > > For 4 probably we don't need ... as there is another indication (an > arrow on Windows). > I don't remember now, is there something on Linux? > > I think 1) does not need ... > 2) needs ... > > 3) I have no idea. > > What do you think? > > regards > Gabor > while trying to prepare his FOSDEM Padre talk... > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > > -- MyMediaLite Recommender System Library: http://ismll.de/mymedialite _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
