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Yes, the usual reason for opening the Printers window is to change something about those printers. But similar things are true for folders (Downloads, Pictures, Music), for files in those folders, and for applications, and we don't put ellipses after their names either. You could even say the same for printers in the Printers window itself: the main reason for double-clicking on them is to change their settings, but their names don't have ellipses. So, the rule for whether an item should have an ellipsis -- use one if the primary implied task requires further input -- does have a large exception. Unfortunately, I don't know a precise definition for that exception. It's something *like*, "Where there are, or could be, so many similar items that having an ellipsis after each would be tedious". For example, when individual System Settings panels are linked from menus (Power settings in the battery menu, Sound settings in the sound menu, Time & Date settings in the clock menu), they have ellipses. But when *those same* panels are listed on the home screen of System Settings itself, they don't, and shouldn't. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871173 Title: Inconsistent use of ellipsis in session menu entries To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/871173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
